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But he says that they do not mean that people with cancer should start using statins in the hopes of improving their prognosis.. He points out that a large number of studies that establish the role of statins in preventing heart attack and stroke have not shown the drugs to reduce cancer deaths. Additional research will be needed to clarify if and how statins might influence survival in cancer patients, he says.
Statins are cholesterol lowering drugs and one of the most commonly prescribed drugs after antibiotics and pain killers. The group as a whole is known as âstatinsâ as all of the drugs in this group have â statin as a suffix in the chemical name. Various studies of the last two decades have conclusively proved the role of statins in the prevention of heart attack, stroke and other diseases related to high blood cholesterol levels.