Study: Aspirin cuts cancer risk by 20%
December 8th, 2010 - 12:39 am ICT by Aishwarya BhattLondon, Dec 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A new study has determined that the humble aspirin cuts cancer risk. The results of the study were published in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’.
In this study more than 25,000 people were studied for over 2 decades and the researchers found that those people who took aspirin managed to drastically reduce their cancer risk by over 20%
The researchers also determined that aspirin was found to be the most beneficial in reducing or altogether preventing gastrointestinal cancers and specifically the colorectal cancer. It also had special powers in preventing lung cancer and esophagus cancer.
“The cell realizes, as it were, that it’s got a problem and it self-destructs. And there are mechanisms that lead cells to do that, and aspirin appears to encourage those mechanisms,” according to Dr. Peter M. Rothwell, who is a co-author of the study and also a professor of clinical neurology at Oxford University in England. He also added that aspirin was found to be most effective for the middle-aged people.
According to CBS News, Dr. Alan Arslan, who is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and environmental medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center said that, “If someone is taking low-dose or regular aspirin it may put them at reduced risk for death from cancer.”
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