An Aspirin a day....

I was just listening to that on the news. They had a little different stats but same concept. Would be nice if it really does work.

The stats on ABC News said 2-4 aspirin a week had more benefit than 5 or more. I think it was something like a 70% reduction vs. 63% for those who took more aspirin. Still the researchers said this is a first study and more studies are needed before they can make a recommendation.

The speculation is that aspirin works by anti-inflammation -- it starves the cancer's blood supply.

So I'm thinking ... 2 aspirin a week hardly seems harmful. Not enough to cause stomach problems. And I've always tolerated aspirin well. Hmmmm.

This is interesting....

I read in one of Dr. Oz's books ( yes...I know...Dr. Oz..lol)  and it mentioned Aspirin as well.

I did bring it up with my onc, and he wasn't too convinced and didnt agree (he gave some explaination). I cant remember exactly why, this was almost a year ago. I am seeing my onc on Friday so maybe Ill bring it up again.

I got a heads up on this a couple of hours ago from on this from the horse's mouth, Michelle Holmes, who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard.  Article is in this week's Journal of Clinical Oncology.  Was embargoed until earlier today.

So give your poor oncologist a chance to read this highly technical article and digest prior to beating on him or her!!!

But certainly something to look at doing.

I have been buried in work so haven't had a chance to review/digest but her summary to me was "We found that women with early stage breast cancer who took aspirin were approximately 50% less likely to die from breast cancer than those women with breast cancer who did not take aspirin."

I went online and only saw last week's articles so may not have been posted yet. - Claire

A quick glance also indicates that these women were also less likely to die from other causes.

Just heard it on the news tonight.  How encouraging.  Although, I did get an aggressive breast cancer (almost 5 years ago) - Stage 2B, her2 +++ - had a large tumor 4 cm. my cancer did not go spread to any other organs.  I, always did take a lot of aspirin (headaches) - hmmm, gets you thinking. 

Since my reconstruction my plastic surgeon recommended 325 mg. of aspirin a day - for the first 30 days after the surgery HOWEVER he told me he takes 325 mg. of aspirn a day for other benefits...colon health.....heart/stroke etc. so I continued to take 1 full strength aspirin (325 mg.) since my surgery  1 1/2 years ago......and I will continue.  I will be a 5 year NED survivor this June 2010.  Thank God.

Super encouraging..........

Mary Jo

O ya!!!

My onc was saying something about the risks of long term Aspirin use. Can't remember what though!

Ill ask again.

I take 81mgper day for heart health per my cardiologist..does this count? I could not take full strength aspirin as it burns my stomach.

Wow!!!  Bev and I were just about to change the channel, and that story came on the news.  I run to the computer and do a search, and up comes BC.org and Kerry Mac!!

Since the study is observational, cause and mechanism are speculative.  But, the fact that aspirin does not seem to prevent occurance, but does significantly lower metastasis (approx 70%), they speculate it is the anti-inflammatory effect that is stiffling the metastasis.  Perhaps without inflammation, the process that allows tissue invasion and vascular development, critical to metastasis taking hold, may be dampened.

A quick search suggest they still believe aspirin reduces the risk of death from colorectal cancer.

Could you just imagine....THIS JUST MAY BE THE ANSWER. I can see it now new diagnosed patients are told well just skip this chemo...go to local store and get you some Bayer Aspirin.....OMG....that would BE AWESOME.....gotta start taken some.....One a day RIGHT????

Im going to buy a bottle - I am gonna use the Zometa approach here - I will start taking it NOW you can tell me later if I should stop. 

I figure the fact that I had a hyst (more likely to get heart disease) and am on tamox (blood clots) - this is probably a win win for me.  God willing.

Girls - between this, Zometa and exercise our recurrence rates must be in the single digits! Or at least that is what I am telling myself!

I dont know - I just pulled the full article and was trying to wade through it to see what dosing was.  Oddly - I used to take a ton of ibuprophen pre diagnosis because of heavy duty exercise but dont anymore - guess I need to work harder!

I cant find dosage anywhere in the article though it does not seem to be referring to baby dose (ie preventing hd). So I am going to buy a bottle of buffered asprin and take a few and see what happens.