Aspirin shown to reduce risk of pancreatic cancer

Aspirin, already known to reduce the risk of colon cancer, may also prevent cancer of the pancreas.

In a seven year study of more than 28000 postmenopausal women aged 55 to 69 who were participants in the Iowa women's health study, the risk of pancreatic cancer was 43% lower in women who took aspirin or products containing aspirin than in women who did not (relative risk 0.57 (95% confidence interval 0.36 to 0.90)). The more often that women took aspirin, the lower their risk of the cancer (Journal of …