‘Statins can cut prostate threat’: Medication for cholesterol can reduce risk of cancer

December 31st, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 1:54 AM on 31st December 2011

Taking statins to cut cholesterol can help to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer, says researchers.

The findings back up previous studies suggesting that controlling cholesterol, a ‘key nutrient’ for cancer cells, can have multiple benefits.

Study author Stephen Marcella said: ‘People may be on these medications for their heart but it may be doing them some good for their prostate.’

Revelation: Taking pills for the heart could help cut the risk of cancer

With colleagues in New Jersey, U.S., he examined the records of 380 men who had died of prostate cancer and another 380 of similar ages.

Dr Marcella and his colleagues collected the medical records of 380 men who had died of prostate cancer and another 380 of the same age and race without prostate cancer or with non-lethal cancer.

Most of the men were white and in their mid- to late-60s, on average and close to one in four of the men in both groups combined had ever taken a statin.

The researchers found that men who died of prostate cancer were half as likely to have taken a statin at any time, and for any duration, than men in the ‘control’ group.

Pill popping: Around 7 million Britons take statins and last year nearly 35,000 men were diagnosed with cancer

When they accounted for whether or not men were overweight and their other health problems and medications, it turned out that those with fatal cancers were 63 per cent less likely to have ever taken a statin, according to findings published in the journal Cancer.

‘If a person’s on the fence about
taking a statin medication for their heart, this is another potential
benefit they may have by taking one of these,’ he said.

But, Dr Marcella added, ‘I would not tell a person if they don’t have a risk of heart disease… to take a statin just to prevent lethal prostate cancer.’

Around seven million Britons currently take statins.

Meanwhile some 34,593 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year – a ten per cent annual rise.

The illness is by far the most common form of cancer in men and one in nine will develop it at some point during their lives.

The researchers also found that while high-potency, newer statins were linked to a decreased risk of fatal prostate cancer, the same was not so true of lower-potency drugs.

This suggests that it is something about the drugs themselves that lower men’s chances of dying from prostate cancer, Dr Marcella said.

The researchers added that cholesterol is a ‘key nutrient’ for cancer cells, so lower cholesterol levels in the body could prevent more aggressive forms of cancer from developing.

But they said that to prove that statins protect against aggressive cancer would require a much larger study in which cancer-free men, or those with early-stage disease, are randomly assigned to take statins or not and then tracked for years to see how many of them die from the disease.

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Don’t believe a word of it, Statins almost crippled me, they damage your muscles.

– Jimpy, Lincs, 31/12/2011 13:00

If you want painful aching limbs and horrendous bruising then take statins.
I was prescribed these last year even though my cholesterol was very low.
Within days I had unbearable aching knees (never injured) which woke me in agony. Bruises all over the body and even a black eye.
These drugs are being pushed very hard by both the pharmacy contractors and doctors.
User beware, there is a enormous amount of money resting on this drug and we are the guinea pigs.
I will never touch them again.

– Roger, Devon, 31/12/2011 12:48

How long will it be before the drug used for one treatment with beneficial side effects preventing other potential illnesses will then be dicovered to have other side effects resulting in a mass class action by the victims.

– Fizz, Oxon, England, 31/12/2011 12:43

What is not mentioned in this article is. that on the list of Statins side effects are:
Short term memory loss.
Brain damage.
Kidney failure.
Death.
Yes the single word ‘Death is a one-word side effect.
Studies in the US have attributed Statin drugs to hundreds of deaths and a public health warning was issued about them.
Here in the UK ‘Merc’ (The maker of one brand of Statin) were forced to put these extra side effects in their list inside the box, but no general warning was issued and the side-effects were quietly inserted on the list.
I raised the issue with a pharmacist, 2 heart specialists and my GP. None of whom knew anything about this. My GP was particularly alarmed and asked to keep the evidence I took him with findings printed from the net of US reports, as he, himself was taking Statins.
Don’t stop taking Statins until you have spoken to your doctor and been prescribed an alternative i.e.. ‘Ezetrol’.
Don’t believe me type in Google

– John Preston, Stoke on Trent, 31/12/2011 12:19

IF YOU WANT A RUINED LIFE AND A PAINFUL DEATH THEN TAKE STATINS.
IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

– David Thomas, Cardiff Wales, 31/12/2011 12:08

“high-potency, newer statins were linked to a decreased risk of fatal prostate cancer, the same was not so true of lower-potency drugs” ………which are running out of patent and not making so much money. Gotta find a new market.

– Bobby, Inverness, 31/12/2011 12:03

What I love about Big Pharma’s statin studies is their total lack of shame. They have absolutely no qualms about magnifying 2% of the truth and leaving the other 98% totally submerged.
Statins are poison – always have been, always will be, no matter how many ‘studies’ are carried out to prove otherwise.

– Fiona McGeachie Gallot, Dax, France, 31/12/2011 12:00

Here we go again, the regular update from Big Pharma on the latest wonder benefit for this insidious little drug. Dont believe a word
– Ordinary Man, Woolamaloo, 31/12/2011 03:57
Having previously worked for Big Pharma, can I commend your perspicacious observation? What we(and the Daily Mail Reporter ) should also ask is why our government is allegedly giving doctors a bonus for prescribing a drug like this one that can also allegedly mess with our heads?

– Peter North, Sutton Surrey, 31/12/2011 11:35

Not enough stats as yet to convince me

– mark, Leigh Lancashire,, 31/12/2011 11:14

I have been asked to take satins, should I take them or not, [ they seem to be
the “god ” pill ] Green for YES Red for NO

– pete, cornwall now, 31/12/2011 10:52

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