Lower cholesterol can reduce the risk of some Cancers

(Thursday, 5 November canstar) - most people know that healthy cholesterol levels can help protect your heart. But new research suggests another potential advantage: less risk of developing certain types of cancer.

In fact, the low levels of total cholesterol is associated with about 60% less risk of the most aggressive form of prostate cancer, and higher levels of good cholesterol (HDL) can protect them against the lungs, liver and other cancers, according to two studies published this week in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention.

This is a reverse of fortune for low cholesterol, which has in the past, been associated with a higher risk of cancer. New studies suggest that low cholesterol does not deserve its bad reputation, received a series of studies in the 1980s, said people with low cholesterol might be at risk of cancer.

In fact, lower cholesterol in people with cancer not diagnosed, which means that the low cholesterol may be a result - not a cause - cancer.

In the first study, men with above at about 55 mg/dL HDL cholesterol had an 11% decrease in overall cancer risk, including cancer of the lung and liver. (Between 40 and 50 HDL levels are average for men). The study, conducted by researchers of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) which focused on a period of 18 years, approximately 29,000 male smokers in Finland is more important to show a relationship between HDL and cancer.

"Very few measured studies [HDL], and any relationship between HDL and overall cancer risk has therefore not been adequately assessed," Demetrius Albanes, MD of the NCI, the principal author of the study, said at a press conference.

While the findings are new and intriguing, research must be carried out to confirm a link between the reduction of the risk of cancer and HDL.

"He has a new, exciting question, but we must do much more research before that we have clear answers," said Eric Jacobs, PhD, epidemiologist of the American Cancer Society, who has co-authored an editorial accompanying the studies. For his part, Dr. Albanes pointed out that the results should be confirmed, especially among women and non-smokers.

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