Aspirin may help to prevent cancer: study
时间：2011-10-29 06:35:45
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BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Taking aspirin1 everyday may lower the risk of developing colon2 cancer for people with the cancer-causing genes3, researchers found.
The finding was published on Friday in the British medical journal "Lancet".
The researchers followed 508 patients with Lynch
syndrome4, an inherited
disorder5 which increases the risk of developing colon and other cancers.
These patients were divided into two groups: members in one group took 600 mg aspirins everyday; another group took only the
dummy6 pills.
After 4 years, 10 colon cancer cases were reported among 258 patients who took daily aspirins for at least two years, comparing with 23 cases among 250 patients on dummy pills.
"This is good news for a very specific population," said Asad Umar, a cancer prevention expert at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
However, the finding doesn't apply to the general public, suggested the lead author of the study John Burn, a geneticist at Newcastle University in England.
Only those who are at risk of such diseases should consider taking aspirin regularly, such as people having a family history of colon cancer, he added.
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