A mini aspirin a day keeps cancer away

摘要

A little aspirin might just go as far as a lot when it comes to preventing bowel cancer - with fewer side effects.rnSo says a five-year retrospective study led by Malcolm Dunlop of the University of Edinburgh, UK, that compared the aspirin habits of 2800 people with cancer and 3000 without. The team found that the risk of getting cancer was 25 per cent lower in those who had been taking 75 milligrams of the drug daily compared with those who had not (Gut, DOI: 10.1136/ gut.2009.2030 00).