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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on June 24, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(13):972-973; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn160
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press.

CORRESPONDENCE

Re: The Association Between Statins and Cancer Incidence in a Veterans Population

Uffe Ravnskov

Correspondence to: Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, Magle Stora Kyrkogata 9, 22350 Lund, Sweden (e-mail: ravnskov@tele2.se).

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In their cohort study of cancer and statin therapy, Farwell et al. (1) may have introduced a serious bias by excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer. In 4S, the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (2), and in HPS, the Heart Protection Study (3), the two first simvastatin trials, this cancer type was observed more often in the treatment groups. The difference was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Response: Re: The Association Between Statins and Cancer Incidence in a Veterans Population
Wildon R. Farwell, Richard E. Scranton, Elizabeth V. Lawler, Robert A. Lew, Mary T. Brophy, Louis D. Fiore, and J. Michael Gaziano
J Natl Cancer Inst 2008 100: 973-974. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]