Years ago, I asked a Cardiologist friend if he took a baby aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks or a stroke. He said, “No, I don’t have any risk factors and the risk of bleeding is more than any benefit.” It turns out that he was right. Thanks to Al MacR for sending this along.
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But, aspirin also decreases cancer risk.
https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/low-dose-aspirin-cancer-prevention.h20-1589046.html
It’s possible that aspirin may prevent certain cancers in some vulnerable age groups.
According to the NCI, “To better answer questions about safety and who is most likely to benefit from aspirin, researchers are awaiting the results of several ongoing clinical trials that are testing aspirin either to reduce the risk of cancer or as an adjuvant therapy to reduce the risk of an already treated cancer from returning.
Included among them are: CAPP3, a follow-on study from CAPP2 that is testing three different aspirin doses in patients with Lynch syndrome; ASPREE, which is testing whether low-dose aspirin can reduce the risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, or dementia in people aged 65 and older; and Add-Aspirin, which is examining two different doses of aspirin as an adjuvant treatment for people who have undergone surgery for early-stage breast, colorectal, prostate, or esophageal cancer.
These long-term studies, Dr. Umar stressed, “are needed to answer many important questions.”
Updated: February 23, 2017