Aspirin reduced risk of cancer in large US study

doi:10.1136/bmj.39185.688819.DB

BMJ 2007;334:816 (21 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39185.688819.DB

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Aspirin reduced risk of cancer in large US study

Janice Hopkins Tanne

New York

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A new prospective cohort study adds to the evidence that regularlytaking aspirin reduces the incidence of cancers and cancer mortality.But the study, in postmenopausal women in the US Midwest, foundthat use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs did not protectagainst cancer.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester,Minnesota, and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis studied22 507 postmenopausal women who had no history of cancer orheart disease and who took part in the Iowa women's health study.They presented their findings in an abstract at the annual meetingof the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeleslast week (www.abstractsonline.com/viewer/searchAdvanced.asp,abstract 3400).

When the women enrolled in the study in 1992, they reportedtheir use of aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugsand also their smoking history. The researchers did not questionthe women further but determined cancer incidence and . . . [Full text of this article]

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