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I think the comments from the other Dr at the bottom of the page are really interesting.

He's basically postulating that the reason cancer rates are higher is because people are living longer and the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer, so a whole bunch of people that otherwise would have died from a CV issue are now living long enough to die of cancer.

"Therapies that reduce the CVD state increase life expectancy and may thereby increase the cancer state and hence death from cancer. The less likely a patient is to die of atherosclerotic CVD, the more likely they will die of other extra CV causes, of which cancer is the most common. Conversely, treatments reducing cancer mortality are prone to increase the risk of dying from CVD."

I never thought of it this way but it makes a lot of sense right?  Basically (outside of accidents) one of two things is most likely going to kill you, a heart attack or cancer.  So if you reduce the risk of dying from one, you increase the risk of dying from the other.