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Aspirin May Prevent Cancer From Spreading, New Research Shows (scientificamerican.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: In recent years scientists have discovered another possible use for aspirin: stopping the spread of cancer cells in the body after an initial tumor has already formed. The research is still developing, but the findings hint that the drug could one day form the basis for a powerful addition to current cancer therapies. Not everyone responds equally well to the drug, however, and for some people it can be downright dangerous. Investigators are thus trying to develop genetic tests to determine who is most likely to benefit from long-term use of aspirin. The latest research into the drug's cancer-inhibiting activity is generating findings that could possibly guide those efforts. More recently, investigators have started to elucidate a third way that aspirin works -- one that interferes with the ability of cancer cells to spread, or metastasize, through the body. Intriguingly, in this case, the drug's anti-inflammatory properties do not appear to play the starring role. Researchers often inject tumor cells into the bloodstream of mice to approximate what happens during metastasis when cancer cells must navigate the bloodstream to find a new home in the body. When Elisabeth Battinelli, a hematologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and her team fed aspirin to certain strains of mice and then injected them with malignant cells, the investigators discovered that the platelets did not shield breakaway cancer cells from the immune system or produce the necessary growth factors that allow cancer cells to grow and divide in a new location. Thus, aspirin appears to fight cancer in two ways: its anti-inflammatory action prevents some tumors from forming, and its antiplatelet properties interfere with some cancer cells' ability to spread.
Keep in mind the word "may" means "there is still insufficient evidence to believe that" -- and chances are whatever is asserted will eventually be proven not to be the case. Oh yes ... and it won't be reported on again in that case because it doesn't make a good story.
Correct. We should support science instead of "feelings."
That is what he said but racists stand against him.
He said no serious person disagrees with them, and he hasn't confirmed that he doesn't stand against this study.
His exact quote was ‘No Serious Person Would Suggest That You Could Even Rig America’s Elections’ but since then he keeps making-up claims that he even he admits he has no evidence to prove. He is expecting us to believe ridiculous garbage with no proof just because he hates the world. Hates the world.
Obama has proven he hates science and loves nonfact liberal education.
Obama is a Muslim from Kenya.
And anyone that disagrees is a racist.
As he said, "No Serious Person..."
He is correct. Only racists disagree.
This. He is smart so people that disagree are anti-science like flat earthers.
This. People that disagree with Obama are racist by definition.
I take a few aspirins each month and no cancer here.
I suspect the drug companies will try to isolate what part of aspirin is preventing cancer, isolate it, and remove it from over-the-counter aspirin. Then they'll sell it to us for thousands/month. I guess it's time to stock up on some aspirin.
and put peple in prison
If I eat a chocolate aspirin pot brownie every day I'll be immortal?
This. Only republicans believe this lie.
This. The DNC typically supports feelings over facts.
Smart but as he said he hates nonbreeders.
Bit some not so serious people disagree.
Obama lied.
When I was doing chemo for stage 4 cancer, I was encouraged to take aspirin to deal with some of the side effects. While looking around for other possible cures, I found research that suggested my specific cancer may be stopped by aspirin in some cases but not consistently. I looked at the effectiveness of my chemo and it looked about the same as just the aspirin.
I came to the conclusion that the chemo just convinced me to take aspirin and that was what worked. Not really, but it looked like a possibility. Chemo success was under 6%, aspirin alone was about 4% in one study. Either way what I have is "incurable" as I was told, and something worked. I would find it funny if it was only the aspirin. I honestly believe the chemo fixed other problems I was having that were minor.
This was all a little over 5 years ago. So this is old news.
His denial of outside election interference proves that.
No he said he denies science. Of course that also includes a stand against breeders.
contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.
But he has two spawn which makes him a hypocrite.
As they should in order to help the people. Help the people.
I first read about this in 2011, right after I had myself been diagnosed with colon cancer.
My tumour had been detected only because it had slowly leaked blood into the colon, causing anemia and I had been lucky to have a pedantic doctor who wanted to find the root cause.
I immediately started self-medicating on ibuprofen (another drug in the NSAID group, together with Aspirin) and after two weeks the bleeding had stopped.
The theory back then on how Aspirin and other NSAIDs work is that a tumour causes the its surroundings to be inflamed in order to feed it with blood - and Aspirin is a potent anti-inflammatory drug.
Does Ibuprofen provide the same protection for this?
Because I had to look it up: Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid
Just to be straight up: Aspirin kills over 10,000 people a year in the US and Ibuprofen & similar NSAIDs do the same. If you mix alcohol and either aspirin or ibuprofen together, you can get deadly gastrointestinal hemorrhages, which happen to be as deadly as heart attacks. Don't do continuous daily aspirin or ibuprofen without a doctor's advice..
A healthy marathoner friend preparing for his next marathon was pushing hard and taking a lot of ibuprofen every day to limit pain. He noted to my neighbor he was having a little blood in the toilet. My neighbor asked him what he was doing the rest of the day. The marathoner said he was going wherever and my friend said "Cancel it!" What? was the reply. My friend said get to the Em. Dept. now, now one hour from now, now. The marathoner had massive internal GI lesions and was in the hospital for over a month. He was plain lucky he didn't die.
Just to be straight up: Aspirin kills over 10,000 people a year in the US and Ibuprofen & similar NSAIDs do the same. If you mix alcohol and either aspirin or ibuprofen together, you can get deadly gastrointestinal hemorrhages, which happen to be as deadly as heart attacks. Don't do continuous daily aspirin or ibuprofen without a doctor's advice..
A healthy marathoner friend preparing for his next marathon was pushing hard and taking a lot of ibuprofen every day to limit pain. He noted to my neighbor he was having a little blood in the toilet. My neighbor asked him what he was doing the rest of the day. The marathoner said he was going wherever and my friend said "Cancel it!" What? was the reply. My friend said get to the Em. Dept. now, now one hour from now, now. The marathoner had massive internal GI lesions and was in the hospital for over a month. He was plain lucky he didn't die.
Agree. I'm an MD in the field of radiology and I've seen people die from internal bleeds, with underlying cause attributed to injury or cancer while taking aspirin. So while I'm naturally interested in finding this "third mechanism" of aspirin, even if I had cancer today I wouldn't start taking aspirin just yet. Let's figure out if the sum of benefits outweigh the risks and go from there.