One, in which Dr. Weiss was the senior author, highlighted the extended survival of
metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients who received statins.
The abstract title was: Attempt to Validate Drug Repositioning for
Metastatic Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Therapy Identifies Statins Associated with Survival Benefit.?
Not exact matches
Among
lung cancer patients; suicide SMR was higher in males (SMR = 8.8), Asians (SMR = 13.7), widowed patients (SMR = 11.6), older patients (70 - 75 years; SMR = 12), patients with undifferentiated tumors (SMR 8.6) or
small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) histology (SMR = 11.2), patients presenting with
metastatic disease (SMR = 13.9) and in patients who refused to receive surgical treatment (SMR = 13).
«He's been sick,» I said, because this had been going on for a year, and though nobody gets better from
metastatic small -
cell lung cancer, he'd been holding his own for months and months.