Study says Low-dose Aspirin Safe Way to Reduce Colon Cancer Risk

A recent study showed that taking lower dose of aspirin is a safer way to reduce the risk of colon cancer.

British researchers found out that taking a lower dose of aspirin can help reduce number of cases of colon cancers and its cancer death rates.

Colon cancer is the second to the leading cancer form in developed countries, and the findings bring light to their research that aspirin can help a person in preventing the occurrenceof colon cancer.

The findings been published in the Lancet Medical Journal, however the findings are unlikely to settle due to the controversies about aspirin.

In previous studies, it shows that people who take high levels and doses of aspirin can be very effective in preventing the developmentof colon cancer to a person.

However, consumption of this medicine can be very hazardous to most people; it oftentimes caused deadly and serious bleeding in a person’s intestines and stomach.

Another study regarding to a related painkiller medicine, ibuprofen also help reduce the cancer rates of colon cancer, for people who take the medication over a long period of time.

Lead author of the study, Peter Rothwell, from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, together with his team, conducted four large studies of more than 14,000 people. Half of their subjects take low-dose of aspirin intended for treating heart disease.

Eighteen years later, only 2.8 percent of those volunteers developed and acquired colorectal cancer. They have found out that aspirin effectively reduce the risk of this illness by 24 percent, and at the same time it also lowered the risk of a person to die from this kind of disease by almost 35 percent.

These findings can help people who cannot afford expensive diagnosis and treatments for colon cancer, to get an affordable medication to prevent colorectal cancer in the future.

Via : seedol