Breast cancer remains the commonest cancer in women with approximately 1 million new cases diagnosed annually. However, survival rates have increased year-on-year with 5 year disease free survival as high as 90% in women in whom the tumour is diagnosed early. Large numbers of cancer survivors are therefore present in the population – an estimated […]
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Ezetimibe and Cancer: What is the risk?
The recent Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) Trial showed that the combined treatment had no impact on the progression of aortic stenosis – but an excess of incident cancers was identified in the simvastatin-ezetimibe group when compared to placebo (105 vs 70, p=0.01). Deaths from cancer were also more frequent in the simvastatin-ezetimibe […]