HEALTHY DIETS AND SCIENCE: Statin users have a 37% increase in gastric cancer risk

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Monday, 21 November 2011

Statin users have a 37% increase in gastric cancer risk

This paper was published in Hepatogastroenterology 2011 May-Jun;58(107-108):1057-61

Study title and author:

Statins and gastric cancer risk.

Shimoyama S

Gastrointestinal Unit, Settlement Clinic, Towa, Tokyo, Japan. shimoyama@apost.plala.or.jp

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21830442

This paper reviewed the scientific literature concerning the effect of statins on gastric cancer incidence published between 1993 and 2008.

The author found:
(a) Statin users had a 37% increase in gastric cancer risk.
(b) Statin users had a 20% increase in upper gastrointestinal cancer.