A twenty-year dataset suggests a familiar drug may curb metastasis

Claim

Weizmann researchers reported that sildenafil may curb metastasis by blocking PDE5 and starving migrating cancer cells of the cholesterol they need to travel, an effect that may strengthen alongside statins, backed by twenty years of data on five million patients.

Reported metric: 5M patients

Reporting date: 2026-08-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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