Cardiovascular drugs and cancer: of competing risk, smallpox, Bernoulli, and d'Alembert.

Division of Cardiology, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, The Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Studies Coordinating Centre, Division of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; and Cardiovascular Institute, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA