MORE POSITIVE DATA IN FAVOR OF ASPIRIN FOR COLON CANCER

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This week’s Lancet Journal (from England) has an important study supporting the use of aspirin in preventing colon cancer. Aspirin at 600mg daily (equivalent of 2 full dose pills) yielded a significant reduction in colon cancers in patients with Lynch Syndrome (a genetic predisposition to colon cancer). Although not clearly applicable to other patients with …