Health Update: Aspirin advantage
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Your support makes all the difference.PEOPLE who take aspirin regularly are 40 per cent less likely to die from four common cancers of the digestive tract, say researchers in Atlanta, Georgia. A survey of 635,000 Americans showed that those who used aspirin 16 times a month or more, for at least a year, were at lower risk of death from cancers of the oesophagus, stomach, colon and rectum than those who never took aspirin. Anti-
inflammatory drugs such as aspirin may inhibit cell proliferation and 'enhance the anti-tumour immune response', they suggest in Cancer Research.
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