May 20, 2005 (Orlando) — An observational study has found that statin use in U.S. female veterans compared with nonusers was associated with a 51% reduced risk of breast cancer, researchers reported here at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2005 Annual Meeting.
The beneficial effect is seen in more than four years of statin use, said lead author Ruby Kochhar, MD, who led the study at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center at Shreveport, Louisiana.
The retrospective case-control study compared statin use among 556 women with a history of breast cancer and 39,865 women without the disease who served as controls. Breast cancer was identified by International Classification of Diseases codes, and statin use was tracked by prescription.
Read the entire article at Medscape (free registration required). Link: Statin Use Linked to 51% Reduction in Breast Cancer.
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