The anticancer effect of statins in obese esophageal cancer patients undergoing esophagectomy.

Eihab Abdelfatah Moshim KukarSarbajit MukherjeeAdrienne GromanSai Yendamuri

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2022)

Statin use is associated with improved OS, DSS, and RFS of obese patients in resected esophageal cancer. BMI could be investigated as a biomarker for adjunctive statin use in future studies.

Keyphrases

obese patients
cardiovascular disease
bariatric surgery
patients undergoing
gastric bypass
roux en y gastric bypass
coronary artery disease
weight loss
body mass index
low density lipoprotein
lymph node
type diabetes
case control
robot assisted
prognostic factors