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Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows

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Re: Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows

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Post by ng12 »

swah wrote: post #2

Surely this would have been discovered by patients by accident, if it was true?

How? Maybe you went into remission because you took an aspirin every morning. Or maybe it's because drank a cup of coffee every day, or ate lots of greens, or spent 10 minutes in the sun every day, etc. Your body is complicated and more than likely lots of factors helped.

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Post by creaghpatr »

swah wrote: post #2

Surely this would have been discovered by patients by accident, if it was true?

I doubt patients would consider the correlation since in their mind the effectiveness measure of aspirin specifically is pain relief rather than remission.

Plus lots of 'noise' from other treatments.

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Post by swsieber »

swah wrote: post #2

Surely this would have been discovered by patients by accident, if it was true?

I don't think so - a cancer patient is probably taking/doing so many things for treatment that they wouldn't think to attribute it to cancer.

It could explain people eating healthy to get rid of cancer instead of chemo or traditional treatments - maybe they take aspirin too.

I know I wouldn't give aspirin a second thought if I had cancer.

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Post by digikata »

creaghpatr wrote: post #4
swah wrote: post #2

Surely this would have been discovered by patients by accident, if it was true?

I doubt patients would consider the correlation since in their mind the effectiveness measure of aspirin specifically is pain relief rather than remission. Plus lots of 'noise' from other treatments.

I think it would be hard to see too, but I know my grandfather for example had a long-term, small dose of asprin prescribed to him as a minor 'blood thinner'. So there perhaps exists groups of patients who could form a sample to compare against a more general population.

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Post by erikpukinskis »

Because it's anti-inflammatory?

Could be confirmation bias, but I keep getting the sense that cancer/immune failure in general is connected to our modern 24/7 eating cycle, without any down time for your body to not be inflamed and work on clearing out bad stuff. Thus life extension from intermittent fasting.

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