An Aspirin A Day Might Keep The Doctor At Bay,

Oxford scientists say they found aspirin cut the risk of dying of cancer by 37 per cent,

in one of a series of studies involving 200,000 patients, if patients took it every day for five years, the evidence is so strong that in future the NHS watchdog NICE may issue guidelines telling doctors to prescribe aspirin to cancer sufferers, researchers also found that once patients had been diagnosed with cancer, their chance of it spreading was cut by 55 per cent if they took a daily doses of aspirin for at least six and a half years, Professor Rothwell who is based at the University of Oxford and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, said 'this research really shows that the cancer benefit is as large, if not larger, than the benefit in terms of preventing heart attacks and strokes,'


on the down side Aspirin can have harmful side effects including stomach ulcers and internal bleeding in the intestines, other risks in adults include kidney disease and tinnitus – or ringing in the ears, but he said that the thousands of patients currently taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks and stroke would almost certainly be also reducing their risk of dying from cancer, I still wonder though why the coated aspirin pills I take daily have been banned from sale since the begining of this year unless with a prescription over here.