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wn.com - 9 hours ago

Statins may help men with advanced prostate cancer live longer

Can a cholesterol drug really help fight prostate cancer?A new study says yes — but with some important warnings. Researchers found that men with advanced prostate cancer who took statins (the common cholesterol-lowering drugs) alongside apalutamide and standard hormone therapy lived longer than those who didn’t.The findings of the study have been published in the European Medical Journal.This large analysis, involving over 2,100 men from two major clinical trials, SPARTAN and TITAN, revealed that statin users had significantly higher survival rates. However, there’s a trade-off: statins...


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