Sunday, June 14, 2015

Trials show aspirin slows breast cancer - The Times (subscription)

A daily aspirin could slow the growth of breast cancer, early trials suggest.

Tumours in mice given the equivalent of a daily headache pill grew half as fast as those untreated, a study found.

While experts cautioned that the results have yet to be repeated in humans, the research adds to evidence that the common drug has strong anti-cancer properties.

US researchers looked at 96 plates of cancer cells, finding that they died much faster and struggled to grow when aspirin was added. They then injected 20 mice with breast cancer, giving half the equivalent of the human dose of


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