Statins in the prevention of prostate cancer recurrence: are certain biases exaggerating the results?

MeSH terms

• Body Mass Index
• Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic
• Disease-Free Survival
• Humans
• Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / administration & dosage*
• Hyperlipidemias / drug therapy
• Male
• Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / mortality
• Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / prevention & control*
• Obesity / complications*
• Obesity / mortality
• Observer Variation
• Predictive Value of Tests
• Prognosis
• Prostatic Neoplasms / complications
• Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
• Prostatic Neoplasms / mortality
• Prostatic Neoplasms / prevention & control*
• Prostatic Neoplasms / radiotherapy
• Research Design
• Smoking / adverse effects*
• Smoking / mortality