A new study details how a daily dose could prevent or delay the progression of the world’s third most common type of cancer.
Aspirin is well known for its ability to ease pain from muscle aches and headaches; it reduces fevers; and low doses can thin blood, reducing the chance of clots that cause strokes and heart attacks. Now a new study suggests it may also play a role in colorectal cancer prevention.
Your immune system is always surveilling the body for cells that just aren’t right. When they find such cancer cells, they will kill them just as they would kill invading bacteria or viruses, saysColored 3D computed tomography scan of the colon of a 54-year-old male patient, showing extensive narrowing of the colon . This suggests the presence of a cancerous lesion. Globally, colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer.
“What has been seen in multiple studies for colorectal cancers is that having a more robust immune reaction does seem to have a better outcome,” Meyerhardt says. “This is looking at how aspirin may interact with that.”In the study, researchers obtained tissue samples from 238 patients who had undergone surgery for the colorectal cancers. Of these patients, 12 percent were taking a daily low dose of aspirin for the prevention of heart disease.
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