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Study: Aspirin linked to less cancer


Published: April 17, 2007 at 2:40 PM
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LOS ANGELES, April 17 (UPI) -- Women who regularly use aspirin developed fewer cancers than women who did not, according to a study by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Regular aspirin use was associated with lower cancer incidence and cancer mortality, but non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use was not, according to findings presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles.

Among 22,507 cancer-free postmenopausal women who participated in the Iowa Women's Health Study and provided information on aspirin and NSAID use, those who said they regularly used aspirin had a 16-percent reduced risk of developing cancer more than a decade later.

In addition, they had a 13-percent reduced risk of dying from cancer over this same time period, compared with women who did not use aspirin, according to lead author Dr. Aditya Bardia.

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