Regular use of aspirin may lower risk of advanced prostate cancer
ADD another disease to the list of ailments that may be thwarted by regular aspirin use — prostate cancer. Researchers reported that men who took at least three aspirin tablets a week reduced their risk of developing or dying from advanced prostate cancer. The aspirin did not affect whether the men developed the disease to begin with, though.Separately, other scientists found what they described as early evidence that a government panel’s recommendation against routine prostate-cancer screening may be having an unwelcome result: an increase in detection of tumours at more advanced states, when they are harder to treat.Findings from the two studies were released Monday ahead of their presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Asco) Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, in San Francisco later this week.About 220,000 cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in the US last year, according to American Cancer Society estimates, making it the second-most common cancer among men, ...
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