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New Aspirin Hype: Aspirin stops Cancer From Spreading

Most of us take an Aspirin to get over a hangover, but Aspirin is already known to prevent heart disease. Now a new study says that it stops also cancer from spreading.

Mar 21 2012, 2:27pm CDT | by

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New Aspirin Hype: Aspirin stops Cancer From Spread
 
 

Aspirin is big in the news today. Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid, is becoming a cheap super weapon in medicine. A new study by a team of researchers led by Professor...

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"This is the first study to measure genome-wide mutation rates of a pre-malignant tissue within patients for more than a decade, and the first to evaluate how aspirin affects those rates"


Source: Medical News Today

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Enteric Coated Aspirin 81 mg Tablets by Advance Pharmaceutical Inc.: Recall of One Lot - May Contain Acetaminophen 500 mg Tablets

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration

ISSUE: Advance Pharmaceutical Inc. announced that this firm is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall to the user level of the over-the-counter drug product, Rugby label Enteric Coated Aspirin Tablets, 81 mg, Lot 13A026. Advance Pharmaceutical Inc. fi ...
Full article at: U.S. Food and Drug Administration  More like this  11 hours ago, 5:38pm CDT

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Aspirin May Fight Cancer by Slowing DNA Damage, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Study

Source: Biospace

Staying up-to-date has never been simpler. Sign up for the free GenePool newsletter today! Aspirin is known to lower risk for some cancers, and a new study led by a UC San Francisco scientist points to a possible explanation, with the d ...
Full article at: Biospace  More like this  18 hours ago, 10:29am CDT

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Can aspirin and other NSAIDs prevent cancer?

Source: Health.India.com

Washington, June 19 (ANI): A new study suggests that aspirin can lower our cancer risk by lowering the rate of accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells which is a pre-cancerous condition. Aspirin an ...
Full article at: Health.India.com  More like this  21 hours ago, 7:45am CDT

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Aspirin slows accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells, points UCSF scientist

Source: News-Medical.net

Aspirin is known to lower risk for some cancers, and a new study led by a UC San Francisco scientist points to a possible explanation, with the discovery that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in a ...
Full article at: News-Medical.net  More like this  1 day ago, 12:10am CDT

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New Aspirin Hype: Aspirin stops Cancer From Spreading

Aspirin is big in the news today. Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid, is becoming a cheap super weapon in medicine. A new study by a team of researchers led by Professor Peter Rothwell at the University of Oxford says that Aspirin stops cancer from spreading. This is a huge deal. The question is though if you should now down an Aspirin a day despite having no headache from a hangover? The BBC has a good article on whether to take an Aspirin or not. There are risks like internal bleeding. For healthy adults it most likely makes no sense to down an Aspirin every day.

 

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Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
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