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SUBMITTER: Lee HS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4902509 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Hee Seung HS Lee Sang Hoon SH Lee Hyun Jik HJ Chung Moon Jae MJ Park Jeong Youp JY Park Seung Woo SW Song Si Young SY Bang Seungmin S
Medicine 20160501 19
Statins are cholesterol-lowering medications that are associated with a number of signaling pathways involved in carcinogenesis. Recent observational studies raised the possibility that the use of statins may reduce overall mortality in various types of cancer. We investigated whether statins used after pancreatic cancer diagnosis are associated with longer survival in pancreatic cancer patients.We retrospectively analyzed data from 1761 patients newly diagnosed with pancreatic adenocarcinoma be ...[more]