Can Aspirin treat breast cancer?

cp418

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/can-aspirin-treat-breast-cancer-why-aren-t-we-trying-to-find-out-1.2714640

Can Aspirin treat breast cancer? Why aren't we trying to find out?

Lori1967

Just saw this on the news this morning, and I wondered if anyone else has been taking the low dose??

Manu14

I started taking a low dose aspirin every other day several months ago. After a lot of reading, it seems like it has potential benefits on a number of fronts: lowering risk of stroke from Tamoxifen; lowering colon cancer risk and lowering breast cancer recurrence.  Reports seem to say the benefits aren't immediate but take a few years. 

Momine

Someone told me she is in a clinical trial, so I think people are checking it out. According to my doc, the evidence so far is not clear.

Momine

Recent article on aspirin studies

savgigi

All I can say is I have been taking aspirin for at least 15 years and still got BC. 

edwards750

Me 2 savgigi 

Diane 

BookWoman

My MO has me taking low dose 3x a week.

NatsFan

My MO started me on a daily low dose a few years ago. 

Jelson

   I just randomly thought of an organization which likes to think of itself as out of the mainstream for finding a cure for cancer and asked them if they are funding any studies of aspirin or statin and if not, why not. http://www.standup2cancer.org/site/contact

so thanks for posting the original article

Claire_in_Seattle

This study is more than 4 years old, and was at that time groundbreaking news. Based on the results at that time, I do 2 regular aspirin daily just before sleep. I am usually hurting from the exercise I do, so helps with that as well. I was not about to wait 10 years for a study to prove the effectiveness of aspirin either way.

Thanks for sharing. Still convinced that the two most important things you can do post active treatment are:

1. Exercise, which I do
2. Aspirin, which I also do
3. The third is maintain a healthy weight, which is what will happen if you do enough of #1.

BTW - I had some quackdoodle recently try to convince me that hundreds of thousands of people die annually from taking aspirin. Sheesh. But I believe this is solid research. - Claire