Kala Visvanathan, MD, on Ovarian Cancer: Lowering Mortality With Lipophilic Statins
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting 2020 IIKala Visvanathan, MD, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses her analysis of data from more than 10,000 women with ovarian cancer. The results suggest that atorvastatin and simvastatin, lipophilic statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, reduced ovarian cancer death rates (Abstract 5782).
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