A small daily dose of Aspirin is considered to help protect those aged 45 and over against heart disease and cancer.
The Lancet study has shown that an increased use of Aspirin could save thousands of cases of bowel cancer, alone. research is also looking to see whether it is as successful against othet types of cancer. A professor at Newcastle University, is worried that if everyone was prescribes the drug we would see the side effects. At the age of 45 and above the risk of bowel cancer increases; a stratified approach would be to only advise those at a greater risk to take Aspirin daily.
Some experts have suggested that it would not be advised for everyone over 45 to take Aspirin, as a preventative against cancer.
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