Postdiagnosis aspirin use reduces risk of dying from colorectal cancer

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

Regular use of aspirin after colorectal cancer diagnosis may reduce the risk of cancer death, report Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  In today's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study’s authors also find that the aspirin-associated survival advantage was seen primarily in patients with tumors expressing the COXread more

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