STAINS INCREASE BREAST CANCER RISK
A new study has
revealed that long-term use of controversial heart drug statins can aggravate
breast cancer risk.
The Royal College
of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association are currently
mounting an official challenge to the decision over concerns about the side
effects of long term statin use, the Daily Express reported.
Dr. Clare Gerada,
former chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs said that the link with breast
cancer and statins was worrying and they did not know the impact of these drugs
on millions of people taking statins for up to 40 years.
The authors
concluded that the contemporary population-based case-control study, long-term
use of statins was associated with increased risks.
The new study is
published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology.
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