Daily Low-Dose Aspirin Linked to Reduced Risk of Certain Cancers
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, researchers are reporting.
But the benefit was only seen after six years of taking aspirin almost daily, the study authors said.
“That makes sense, because cancers don’t typically develop overnight. They take years to develop, so you would have to take aspirin for a long time to prevent cancer,” said senior researcher Dr. Andrew Chan, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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