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To the Editor: Hoffmann and colleagues (Dec. 21 issue)¹ report on the use of statins and the outcome of immunotherapy with bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine in 84 patients with superficial bladder cancer. The authors report that over a median follow-up period of 46 months, 19 patients who were using statins had an increased risk of "more aggressive" disease.

We analyzed outcomes in a cohort of 156 patients (median follow-up, 56 months) who received BCG; 39 used statins during the treatment, and 117 did not. We found no significant differences between the two groups in the incidence of tumor recurrence (59% . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Use of Statins and Outcome of BCG Treatment for Bladder Cancer
Hoffmann P., Roumeguère T., Schulman C., van Velthoven R.
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N Engl J Med 2006; 355:2705-2707, Dec 21, 2006. Correspondence

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