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NEW ORLEANS - In a case of medical serendipity, the cholesterol- lowering pills called statins, already widely prescribed to prevent heart attacks, also appear to have an unintended but potentially substantial benefit of warding off cancer.
Statins already are among the world's most commonly used medicines. Evidence has been building for several years that people who take them to improve their cholesterol levels seem less likely than usual to get cancer.See the full content of this document
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Heart-Healthy Statins May Also Lower Cancer Risk
The latest data, released Sunday at a large cancer conference, found that people who took statins for at least five years appeared to cut their risk of co...
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