Statins pills may help decrease cancer death risk

A new study suggests that statins may help decrease the risk of cancer death. So if you are cancer patients who pop statin pills then you are less likely to die of the four most common forms of cancer. The 14 year study from nearly one million patients found that a high cholesterol diagnosis was associated with lower risk of death in lung, breast, prostate and bowel cancers.
“The discovery of a link between obesity and high cholesterol as risk factors for cancer has been exciting for researchers and the public,” adding “Even trendier is the idea that if high cholesterol can cause cancer, then cholesterol lowering interventions such as statins could reduce this risk,” said lead author Paul Carter from the Aston University in Birmingham, UK said: He further added that “We previously found an association between having high cholesterol and developing breast cancer.2 Animal studies show that giving statins for high cholesterol can reduce the risk of breast cancer. We wanted to see if there was any effect of high cholesterol on mortality amongst cancer patients.”