I find this very interesting, that a simple drug like aspirin could or might be able to treat cancer. Apparently Taking aspirin every day can reduce the chance of developing or dying from bowel and stomach cancers, and scientists predict that if everyone aged 50 and above in the UK took the drug for 10 years, some 122,000 deaths could be prevented over two decades. However, the most annoying part of this is that there are serious side effects to taking Aspirin every single day, for example, it could cause internal bleeding.They found that the drug reduced the number of cases and deaths from bowel, stomach and oesophageal cancer by 30-40%.
There was a weaker and more variable evidence that the drug also reduced deaths from breast, prostate and lung cancer respectively.
Dr Julie Sharp, at Cancer Research UK, said: "Aspirin is showing promise in preventing certain types of cancer, but it's vital that we balance this with the complications it can cause.
So my question now is... What is the life expectancy for someone with cancer?.. For example pancreatic cancer.... (found this on cancer research UK website)
"Sadly, pancreatic cancer has a very poor outlook overall. Of all adults with pancreatic cancer in England and Wales, around 20 in every 100 (20%) survive for 1 year or more after they are diagnosed. Almost 5 out of every 100 people diagnosed (5%) survive for 5 years or more. And only 1 out of every 100 (1%) will survive for 10 years or more after diagnosis".
So my second question is if you have to take Aspirin every single day for about 5 to 10 years to see results, wouldn't you be dead before you see results?...hmm.
However I really hope this works out, because it just seems like everything these days causes cancer.
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