Spacedoc Newsletter: Cancer and Statins

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Spacedoc Newsletter July 20, 2011

Cancer and Statins

by Duane Graveline, MD, MPH

Statins are immunosuppressive drugs. This is why they can even be used in organ transplants.

More recently we have learned how statins directly damage mitochondria, explaining why neuropathies, myopathies and many cases of ALS-like neuromuscular degeneration are permanent. And now we understand the reality of statin associated cancer.

But the most persuasive idea for statins' contribution to cancer comes from Shovman's original paper in 2002 - Antiinflammatory and immunomodulatory properties of statins - when he revealed that the primary mechanism of action of statins was the inhibition of nuclear factor kappa B, a transcriptase influencing our entire inflammatory and immunodefense system.

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Cancer and Statins

Duane Graveline MD MPH

Former USAF Flight Surgeon

Former NASA AstronautRetired Family Doctor

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