Popular blood pressure medications may add years to the lives of patients with pancreatic cancer, a notoriously tough-to-treat cancer with low survival rates, new research suggests.
Studies in animals have shown that these medications might slow the growth of pancreatic cancer. Several small studies in people suggest the same thing, but the numbers of patients included were too small to draw firm conclusions.
But patients who took ARBs after their pancreatic cancer diagnosis had a 20% lower risk of dying, compared to similar patients who did not take ARBs. But"ARBs and ACE inhibitors still need to be considered experimental treatments for pancreatic cancer," cautions study investigator Scott Keith, PhD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia."While provocative, the data cannot be considered conclusive," says Pawlik, with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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