Breast cancer mortality among users of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

1514 Background: Breast cancer is a common malignancy and cause of cancer death. Recent studies have suggested that statins, an established cholesterol-lowering drug group used in the prevention of cardiovascular mortality, could have beneficial effects against recurrence and progression of breast cancer. We evaluated breast cancer-specific mortality among users of statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs (fibrates and bile-acid binding...