MARIO RITTER: This study seems to confirm a study released in two thousand eight. European researchers reported that aspirin may have what they called a “long-term protective effect against colorectal cancer.” Peter Rothwell of the University of Oxford led the researchers. They examined twenty years of results from four large studies. The studies involved fourteen thousand people.
The researchers found that people who took one aspirin a day for about six years reduced their risk of colon cancer by twenty-four percent. And deaths from the disease dropped by thirty-five percent.
Last year, The Lancet published the combined results of a larger observational study, also led by Professor Rothwell. This time, he and researchers examined eight studies that involved more than twenty-five thousand individuals. They found that taking a small aspirin once a day reduced death rates from a number of common cancers.
BARBARA KLEIN: Aspirin does not help everything, however. It can cause problems, like an increased danger of internal stomach bleeding and ulcers. And it can interfere with other medicines, although this is true of many drugs. Also, some people should not take aspirin. People who take other blood thinners or have bleeding disorders are among this group. Pregnant women are usually told to avoid aspirin.
And research has shown a link between aspirin use and the disease Reye's Syndrome. Children’s doctors say patients up to age nineteen should not take anything containing salicylatic products when sick with high temperatures.
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