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Common cholesterol drugs could slow spread of breast cancer to brain

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By: Deanna Csomo McCool, University of Notre Dame From: medicalxpress.com A new study from the University of Notre Dame shows drugs used to treat high cholesterol could interfere with the way breast cancer cells adapt to the microenvironment in the brain, preventing the cancer from taking hold. Patients with breast cancer who experience this type of metastasis typically survive for …