Can old drugs stop Radiation's lingering damage? new trial aims to find out

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Eligibility Criteria Eligibility criteria (observational registry or randomization) 1. Prior history of head and neck cancer with no active disease. 2. Treated previously with radiotherapy with prescribed dose (greater or equal to 30Gy) to unilateral or bilateral neck(s) 3. Detectable CTC-AE G2+ lymphedema/fibrosis at \>6 months post-radiotherapy. 4. No active liver disease (Child-Pugh class B-C), cirrhosis, nor active alcoholism, nor history of ulcers. 5. No history of myopathy/rhabdomyolysis. 6. Creatinine clearance \<30mL/min. 7. No history of acute myocardial infarction or severe coronary disease. 8. Non-pregnant/post-menopausal, or male. 9. No history of diabetes mellitus 10. Allergy/hypersensitivity to HMG Co-A reductase inhibitor and/or xanthine derivatives, e.g., caffeine, theophylline, theobromine 11. No contraindications for magnetic resonance imaging a Subject to the discretion of the treating physician and Principal Investigator (PI), as the MRI may be optional Exclusion Criteria 1. Active liver disease (Child-Pugh class B-C), cirrhosis, nor active alcoholism. 2. History of myopathy/rhabdomyolysis. 3. History of acute myocardial infarction or severe coronary disease. 4. Pregnant/post-menopausal, or male. 5. History of diabetes mellitus. 6. Allergy/hypersensitivity to Hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG Co-A) reductase inhibitor and/or xanthine derivatives, e.g., caffeine, theophylline, theobromine. 7. Contraindications for MRI Subject to the discretion of the treating physician and Principal Investigator (PI), as the MRI may be optional 8. Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents. 9. History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to statins, hemorheologic agents or other agents used in study 10. Participants with psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.