Aspirin was initially used to treat fever, headaches and body pains. The drug's antiplatelet action was discovered in the 1960s and now it remains the main drug to prevent Atherothrombotic events in patients at risk of getting heart attacks and strokes. In the March issue of 2016 of JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) there is an interesting article that Aspirin may even prevent cancer. According to a long-term study, taking low-dose aspirin every day may lower the overall risk of cancer by 3 percent, mostly because of larger reductions that were seen in the risk for colon and gastrointestinal tumors.
But the benefit was only seen after SIX years of taking aspirin almost daily, the study authors said. And it also reduces inflammation and the amount of some cancer-causing proteins. This study shows only that taking aspirin is associated with a reduction in the risk of cancer,…
