New research supports the idea that statins might decrease the risk for certain cancers.
Chiara Melloni, MD, an associate professor at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, N.C., and her colleagues investigated whether statin use affected outcomes in patients with colorectal cancer. They analyzed the medical records of 29,498 veterans who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer at a VA Medical Center from 2001 to 2011, according to a presentation at the American Heart Association