Antihypertensive Drug Use and the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Death among Finnish Ovarian Cancer Patients-A Nationwide Cohort Study.

Ovarian cancer (OC) has a poor prognosis. Hypertension may be a prognostic factor for OC, but it is unclear whether antihypertensive (anti-HT) drug use of modifies OC prognosis. We performed a population-based analysis assessing the effect of anti-HT drug use on OC mortality.

Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Associated with Improved Breast Cancer Survival-A Nationwide Cohort Study from Finland.

Background: Breast cancer incidence has been associated with hypertension, which might worsen disease prognosis, but few nationwide studies have investigated the association between antihypertensive drug use and breast cancer prognosis.

Methods: A cohort of 73,170 women diagnosed with breast cancer during 1995-2013 identified from the Finnish Cancer Registry was combined with information on antihypertensive drug use during the same time period from a national prescription database. Antihypertensive drugs were analyzed in groups categorized by mechanism of action.

Risk of urothelial cancer death among people using antihypertensive drugs-a cohort study from Finland.

To analyse the association between antihypertensive (anti-HT) drug use and risk of urothelial cancer (UC) death. UC occurs as bladder cancer (BCa) and upper tract urothelial carcinomas (UTUCs). Hypertension is a suggested risk factor for BCa and may impair disease prognosis.