Statin immunomodulation and thyroid cancer. - GreenMedInfo Summary
Statin immunomodulation and thyroid cancer.
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2014 Sep 1. Epub 2014 Sep 1. PMID: 25174914
Luca Mascitelli
In a case-control study(1) , Hung et al. found that statin use was associated with thyroid cancer in female patients. We suggest that the immunomodulatory action of statin drugs may represent a mechanism underlying this detrimental association. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.