QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute’s Dr Penny Webb says an investigation showed women who took aspirin had a 35 per cent better survival outcome than the ones who didn’t.
“That would translate to about an increase of two and a half months
survival on average by five years,” Dr Webb told Sky News Australia.
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