Daily Aspirin blocks bowel cancer
October 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
A daily dose of aspirin should be given to people at high risk of bowel cancer, say scientists.
Two pills a day for two years reduced the incidence of bowel cancer by 63% in a group of 861 at-risk patients, a study reported in The Lancet said.
Newcastle University’s Prof Sir John Burn, who led the study, said the evidence “seems overwhelmingly strong”.
Other experts said the findings added to a growing body of proof that aspirin could be used in the fight on cancer.
The study was conducted on 861 patients with Lynch syndrome, which affects one in every 1,000 people.
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