Statins to prevent heart attacks may combat cancer

Monday, June 7, 2004

NEW ORLEANS -- In a case of medical serendipity, the cholesterol-lowering pills called statins, already widely prescribed to prevent heart attacks, also appear to have an unintended but potentially substantial benefit of warding off cancer.

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