An Asprin A Day May Keep Melanoma at Bay

[Stuart G]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43468687/ns/health-cancer/

MSNBC,

An aspirin a day may keep melanoma at bay, a new study suggests.

After scrutinizing the medical records of 1,000 people, an international team of researchers have determined that the risk of melanoma was cut by almost half when people took a daily dose of aspirin for at least five years.

“Our data at least support the hypothesis that long-term steady aspirin use has an effect,” said study co-author Dr. Robert Stern, a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and chief of dermatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

Previously, the only melanoma prevention advice cancer experts could give was for people to stay out of the sun and get their skin checked for early warning signs of the disease. If melanoma isn’t detected early, it can be deadly.

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Imagine what this stuff would cost, if someone had a patent on it..let's see,,,

Head Pain
Muscle Pain
Reduces Heart Disease considerably (cause it is a blood thinner)
Reduces chance for certain kinds of cancer. (see above story)
Reduces fever
Reduces slightly chance of strokes.
etc.

[sarcasmo]

1. What is the effect on your stomach taking an aspirin every day for 5 years?

[Stuart G]

2. use asprin that desolves in intestine...much safer..

Yes, side effects, but worth taking if you need it. Use the orange stuff, that dissolves outside of stomach

[sarcasmo]

3. Orange stuff? which one is the orange stuff?

[Stuart G]

4. It is enteric coated aspirin

http://wellnessletter.com/html/wl/2006/wlFeatured1206.html

[sarcasmo]

5. Thanks for the link.

[Stuart G]

6. According to this study...colorectal cancer too...

...As reported by the British medical journal the Lancet, in patients who taken regular 300 or more mg aspirin for longer than five years, the incidence of colorectal cancer was reduced by 37 percent overall and after 10 years the total reduction was 74 percent..

Doctor Chopta Says:
Medical Facts and Myths Everyone Should Know
St Martin's Press, New York
copyright 2010
first edition January 2011
see page..103.. for exact quote on colorectal cancer

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but the doctor doesn't say for sure to take it for cancer, You would have to read the chapter...
Me, I take it to prevent heart disease..and I guess that is important because I already had surgery on me for that...Lately, got some joint pain..sometimes the aspirin works on that , sometimes not. I know that the xpensive stuff for joint pain costs a dollar or two a pill, this stuff a penny or two

[diane in sf]

7. Heart disease, cancer prevention probably the result of the anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin

[Seedersandleechers]

8. I've been taking aspirin

everyday since 1993. At the least 650mg. I think I have an iron stomach. Also, I think I'm addicted to them.

[ImNotTed]

9. Is there no END to its magic???

:wow:

[PatSeg]

10. I read an article a couple of years ago

that showed a correlation between thinner blood and resistance to cancer or curing cancer. I cannot find the article now unfortunately. If this was true, it might explain why aspirin could "keep Melanoma at bay".

I cease to be amazed at the many benefits of aspirin.