Sun Health Explainer: Bowel Cancer
AN ASPIRIN a day can 'weaponise' parts of the body's immune system to help it destroy bowel cancer cells.found that the common painkiller can have a protective effect against cancer by boosting certain parts of the body's immune response against cancer cells.may also be prescribed a low, daily dose of aspirin, as the drug can make your blood less 'sticky' and prone to clotting.
Samples of daily aspirin takers showed that their bowel cancer had spread less into their lymph nodes.There was also a higher concentration of immune cells in their tumours, compared to samples from patients who didn't take aspirin. “Our study shows a complementary mechanism of cancer prevention or therapy with aspirin besides its classical drug mechanism involving inhibition of inflammation,” said principal investigator Marco Scarpa MD, PhD, of the University of Padova.But he noted that how much aspirin is absorbed "depends on concentration along the bowel".
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