Daily Aspirin Linked to Steep Drop in Cancer Risk

Hondo said:

good article about Aspirin
This is a good article about Aspirin, but if you are like me I can’t take aspirin because I will star to bleed.

But for people who can I think it may be a factor in there health to maybe take a baby aspirin a day, after checking with there family doctor.

Inflammation, aspirin, and cancer?
You have to wonder if the anti-inflammatory effect of aspirin has anything to do with this - aspirin and motrin use different pathways to reduce pain and fever (which is why they can prevent period cramps if you take them a few days before - they also suppress certain inflammatory hormones).

If someone can find exactly what aspirin does to prevent cancer, they might be able to produce an aspirin-like drug that does the same things, but not the other things aspirin does (including blood thinning and stomach upsetting).

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute folks are reporting that several drugs (one being tested at Pfizer, by Doug's brother) are showing promise for preventing certain types of cancer - we may all live long enough to see cancer as preventable (and treatable) as chicken pox. As it is, in 40 years, I have seen many cancers go from being automatic death sentences to "the treatment will almost kill you but we have a 90% cure rate."