Daily Low Dose Aspirin Reduces Cancer Risks
“Regular, long-term use of low-dose aspirin is linked to a small decrease in overall cancer risk, with much of the reduction due to decreased gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, particularly colorectal cancer (CRC), new research involving more than 135,000 adults indicates.” This was reported in the March 3 issue in JAMA Oncology.
This is so simple, and has benefits to reduce the risks of stroke and heart attacks as well. Just take one baby aspirin each day
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Importance The US Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended the use of aspirin to prevent colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease among many US adults. However, the association of aspirin use with the risk for other cancer types and the potential population-wide effect of aspirin use on cancer, particularly within the context of screening, remain uncertain.
Objectives To examine the potential benefits of aspirin use for overall and subtype-specific cancer prevention at a range of doses and durations of use and to estimate the absolute benefit of aspirin in the context of screening.
Design, Setting, and Participants Two large US prospective cohort studies, the Nurses’ Health Study (1980-2010) and Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986-2012), followed up 135?965 health care professionals (88?084 women and 47?881 men, respectively) who reported on aspirin use biennially. The women were aged 30 to 55 years at enrollment in 1976; the men, aged 40 to 75 years in 1986. Final follow-up was completed on June 30, 2012, for the Nurses’ Health Study cohort and January 31, 2010, for the Health Professionals Follow-up Study cohort, and data were accessed from September 15, 2014, to December 17, 2015.
Main Outcomes and Measures Relative risks (RRs) for incident cancers and population-attributable risk (PAR).
Results Among the 88?084 women and 47?881 men who underwent follow-up for as long as 32 years, 20?414 cancers among women and 7571 cancers among men were documented. Compared with nonregular use, regular aspirin use was associated with a lower risk for overall cancer (RR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.94-0.99), which was primarily owing to a lower incidence of gastrointestinal tract cancers (RR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.80-0.91), especially colorectal cancers (RR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.75-0.88). The benefit of aspirin on gastrointestinal tract cancers appeared evident with the use of at least 0.5 to 1.5 standard aspirin tablets per week; the minimum duration of regular use associated with a lower risk was 6 years. Among individuals older than 50 years, regular aspirin use could prevent 33 colorectal cancers per 100?000 person-years (PAR, 17.0%) among those who had not undergone a lower endoscopy and 18 colorectal cancers per 100?000 person-years (PAR, 8.5%) among those who had. Regular aspirin use was not associated with the risk for breast, advanced prostate, or lung cancer.
Conclusions and Relevance Long-term aspirin use was associated with a modest but significantly reduced risk for overall cancer, especially gastrointestinal tract tumors. Regular aspirin use may prevent a substantial proportion of colorectal cancers and complement the benefits of screening.
I useing minoxidil. I would like to use aspiren to because heart attack is frequent in my family. I read somewhere minoxidil and aspirin never use toghether. What do you think, this is true? Your answer is important to me.
For reduction of stroke and heart attacks, The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendes daily aspirin if you’re > age 50, you’re not at increased bleeding risk, and you have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke of 10 percent or greater over the next 10 years. For the usual person reading the Balding Blog (young and with < 7.5% 10-year increased risk of a cardiovascular event), the scientific evidence supports that the risk of aspirin use (e.g. bleeding) outweighs the benefits for prevention of these conditions (which is why it is NOT recommended by consensus groups for these populations)
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