Statins, the new panacea?

Statins are lipid-lowering drugs, they reduce the rate of blood fats and are prescribed as prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases (i.e. venous thrombosis).

But not only cardiovascular disease is the reason to take statins. Patients with ischemic stroke (as opposed to hemorrhagic stroke) who were taking statins before this health problem or received them within three days of stroke, have a better prognosis than others.

Probably because of vasodilatory and anti-inflammatory functions of medication. More recently, researchers have shown the benefits of this product in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a debilitating respiratory illness.

Recent good news concerning cancer treatment also suggest statin as a helpful drug. The epidemiological and biochemical data have recently suggested that statins could reduce the risk of various malignancies, including those of prostate and breast. A retrospective study just presented at Breast Cancer Symposium, now in San Francisco, shows that taking statins is associated with a decreased risk of recurrence after breast cancer.

Dr. Chae and colleagues at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia reviewed between 1999 and 2005 the records of 707 women diagnosed with breast cancer stage II/III .

The monitoring of these patients ranged between 4.4 and 9.8 years and 20% of them had taken statins for at least six months. The recurrence rate was 9.4% among users against 24% among nonusers of statins.

Result: The risk of recurrence was reduced by 67% when taking statins. But the researchers say, that the use of statins is not associated with a reduction in overall mortality among women treated for breast cancer.

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