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.
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Aug 27, 2015, 5:18 PM
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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.
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