Cholesterol-lowering drugs also may protect stem cell transplant patients from graft-versus-host disease

Friday, December 4, 2009 - 15:28 in Health & Medicine

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the US. Now a new study indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant patients from one of the most serious complications of the life-saving cancer therapy: graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD.

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