Study: Aspirin could lower cancer risk

An aspirin a day could lower the risk of a certain type of cancer. New research suggests men and women, who took low dose aspirin for five or more years, saw their risk of colon cancer drop by 27 percent.

News 12 Staff

Aug 27, 2015, 5:18 PM

Updated 3,408 days ago

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An aspirin a day could lower the risk of a certain type of cancer.
New research suggests men and women, who took low dose aspirin for five or more years, saw their risk of colon cancer drop by 27 percent.
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine also says those who took anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen also saw a 30 to 45 percent drop in the risk of colon cancer.
Researchers compared 10,000 colon cancer patients diagnosed between 1994 and 2011 and between the ages of 30 and 85 with 100,000 cancer-free individuals.