We take aspirin is used to reduce fever and relieve mild to
moderate pain from conditions such as muscle aches, toothaches, common cold,
and headaches. It may also be used to reduce pain and swelling in conditions
such as arthritis. Researchers at Huntsman
Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City have found that aspirin could be used as a
cancer prevention for colorectal cancer. In the study they found statistically significant changes in a
metabolite that has been found to drive cancer development, 2-hydroxyglutarate,
which was reduced by 12%. This study is important because it shows that aspirin
has some level of cancer prevention for corolectal cancer. The next step in this study is to see if
aspirin has any effect of prevention on other cancers. One thing to keep in mind is that Aspirin is acting as a prevention not a cure.
here is the link to the article:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20151119/Identifying-new-mechanism-for-aspirin-in-cancer-prevention.aspx
I swear I read something like this a couple months ago. It's bugging me I can't think of the article, but it might have been another benign drug treating some other completely unrelated disease. Anyway, interesting read!
ReplyDeleteI think I did too!! This definitely wasn't the first time I had heard of this.
DeleteVery interesting! I saw were the study involved "40 individuals who had taken aspirin for 60 days".... maybe I just read over it in the article, but is there like a certain amount of aspirin that they recommend? Like a certain dosage?
ReplyDeleteMechanism? Possible damaging effects of too regular ingestion of aspirin?
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