Undela K, Shah CS, Mothe RK. Statin use and risk of cancer: An overview of meta-analyses. World J Meta-Anal 2017; 5(2): 41-53 [DOI: 10.13105/wjma.v5.i2.41]
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Krishna Undela, Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara University, SS Nagara, Mysuru 570015, India. krishnaundela@jssuni.edu.in
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World J Meta-Anal. Apr 26, 2017; 5(2): 41-53 Published online Apr 26, 2017. doi: 10.13105/wjma.v5.i2.41
Statin use and risk of cancer: An overview of meta-analyses
Krishna Undela, Chirag S Shah, Raj K Mothe
Krishna Undela, Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara University, Mysuru 570015, India
Chirag S Shah, Raj K Mothe, Department of Pharmacy Practice, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar 160062, India
Author contributions: Undela K designed the study, done literature search, data analysis, manuscript preparation and manuscript editing; Shah CS done literature search, data extraction and manuscript review; Mothe RK done data extraction and manuscript review.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Krishna Undela, Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara University, SS Nagara, Mysuru 570015, India. krishnaundela@jssuni.edu.in
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Received: June 15, 2016 Peer-review started: June 16, 2016 First decision: July 27, 2016 Revised: January 14, 2017 Accepted: February 18, 2017 Article in press: February 20, 2017 Published online: April 26, 2017 Processing time: 314 Days and 16.3 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Statins are one of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceutical agents worldwide and atorvastatin remained the largest source of spending in the class. In recent years, emerging experimental evidence suggests that statins may have a potential role in cancer chemoprevention. However, a large number of randomized controlled trials and observational studies published to examine the association between statin use and risk of site specific cancers were given conflicting results. This overview of meta-analyses with variable quality has been shown that the statins may have a potential role in cancer chemoprevention and reduce the risk of colorectal (8%-12%), gastric (27%-44%), hematological (19%), liver (37%-42%), oesophageal (14%-28%), ovarian (21%) and prostate cancer (7%).
