Aspirin Reduces Cancer Risk?

Posted by Sir Four at 10:19pm Dec 7 '10
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That's what is being reported.

A study in the Lancet looking at data from more than 25,000 patients, following up on previous trials. Researchers found that a daily aspirin reduced cancer risk by at least 20 percent during the 20-year period. Most study participants were from the United Kingdom.

When looking at specific cancers, aspirin appeared to lower esophageal cancer death risk by 60 percent, bowel cancer death risk by 40 percent, lung cancer death risk by 30 percent, and prostate cancer death risk by 10 percent. Other cancers had a smaller number of deaths associated with them in the sample of participants, so it was hard to define a risk reduction for them.

If this is accurate, it is hugely significant! Those are big reductions being reported.