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… Individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who are on statin therapy are significantly less likely to develop cancer, researchers said here at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention.
… "We looked at more than 10 years of treatment records," he told MedPage Today, "and we found that the protection of statins was even greater when we considered cancers that are considered AIDS-defining illnesses -- non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and uterine cervical cancer."
None of these cancers were observed in patients on statins, but 194 of these cancers occurred among patients who were not on statins, he said.