Statin Drugs Are Associated With Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer.

Cancer Med · 2025 · PMC11886884 · PMID 40052634

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did not quite reach statistical significancep = 0.069so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The patients taking statins appeared to have a better performance status and were more often treated with chemotherapy while on ICB, although these results did not quite reach statistical significance ( p = 0.069 and 0.067, respectively).

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