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Exposure to statins post localized prostate cancer diagnosis and risk of metastasis among men who did not receive curative prostate cancer treatment.

Talar S HabeshianYu-Hsiang ShuKimberly L CannavaleJeff M SlezakGary W ChienStephen K VandeneedenChun R Chao
Published in: Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) (2022)
We did not find an inverse association between post-diagnosis statin exposure and metastasis development in localized prostate cancer patients who did not receive active treatment. Our results did not offer support to the chemopreventive potential of post-diagnostic statin use among men on active surveillance.
Keyphrases
  • prostate cancer
  • radical prostatectomy
  • cardiovascular disease
  • coronary artery disease
  • type diabetes
  • middle aged
  • risk assessment