Saturday, 21 September 2013

Aspirin may lower women’s cancer risk Taking a low-dose aspirin every other day

Taking a low-dose aspirin every other day may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study that focused on nearly 40,000 women aged 45 and older.

The protection does seem to take some time to surface, said researcher Nancy Cook, a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “After 10 years, we started to see an effect,” she noted. “After 18 years of follow-up, we saw a 20 percent reduction in colon cancer over the whole time

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