Aspirin tied to higher risk of advanced cancer diagnosis and mortality

Reuters Health - 18/09/2020 - Older adults who take daily low-dose aspirin may be more likely than those who don't to be diagnosed with advanced cancers and to die from these malignancies, a randomized trial suggests. Researchers randomly assigned 19,114 community-dwelling adults 70 years and older in the U.S. and Australia 1:1 to take 100mg of aspirin or a placebo daily. Cancer history wasn't part of the exclusion criteria (19% of participants had a prior cancer diagnosis) but participants had to be healthy with a life expectancy of at least another five years and no diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, dementia, or physical disability. After a median follow-up of 4.7 years, there were 981 cancer events in the aspirin group and 952 in the placebo group and no statistically significant difference in all-cancer incidence between groups. But compared with the placebo group, participants in the aspirin group were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer that had ...

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Posted on 18 September, 202030 September, 2020