An Aspirin a day....

What ?????????? 600$ for Arimidex.

I pay 21.00 $ for a pack of 6 Tamoxofin. And in each pack are 8 pills.

21.00 $ for 6 weeks, and I get 80% back each time automatically from the blue cross.

 I pay each 6 weeks for Tamox. 4$. 

Yea....me too..... I am with everyminute.

There is too much information out there that talks about decreasing inflammation when it comes to cancer.  I am not waiting for the 10 year trial. 

I do take tumeric, CLA, celebrex and other things that go after inflammation

There are all kinds of studies that people with migraines have a lower risk of breast cancer....yada yada yada.

There is definitely something here.

Jacqueline 

Can someone point out an article where it says baby Aspirin is to be taken...

Ive been reading articles and can't seem to figure it out!

Thanks.

I thought I was going baty trying to figure it out...lol.

Ill pick up some plain ol Aspirin soon.

I don't think this was a truly double blind study but rather an observational one.  Previous observational studies were later proved to be wrong based on double blind or gold standard studies.

The virtue of observational studies is they sometimes point science in the right direction for further research.

I think its important to not infer more accuracy in these observations than was collected.  The bottom line is that there is a strong association between increased survival and deceased recurrance for women reporting anywhere from 2-7 times per week use of aspirin.  We don't know the dosage, so its pretty much guesswork as to how to precisely duplicate it.  As all women within this range did significantly better than average, dosage should probably be dictated by what dosage is safe and sustainable.  The best data on this has probably been collected from those researching "chronic" users for arthritis and prevention of heart attacks.  I'm going to see what I can find on this subject as there should be many years of practice in those areas.

On the subject of it interfering with tamoxifen, if it did, wouldn't it have shown up as deceasing survival?  Tamoxifen has been employed during most if not all of the years of the data collection and would most likely have been prescribed for many of the 4000 plus women whose data was used.  If their aspirin use increased their survival, its not likely it inferes with tamoxifen.  Its certainly not reported as interfering with tamoxifen, and this data seems to confirm that.

thanks kerry,

i know many onco's will be saying blah blah blah!

diane

This is confusing:) lol

I refuse to give up my red wine.....and I often go over the 3 glasses in a week!!!  Heck wasn't supposed to get BC in the 1st place.....don't drink anymore than I did before Dx but used to drink white wine....now don't like it because its too cold!!!  I can go several days without a glass of wine and then have 2 glasses a couple days in a row....I do my best to eat healthy, keep a good weight etc, etc, etc, but I refuse to give everything up!!!  Need to think about the aspirin...wonder what my onc will say about it....

Ronald, those of use who have been around a bit do know about the cancers that disappear and the ones that seem to shrink on their own, but as you said, who is going to take that chance that theirs is the one? Perhaps we ourselves have had cancer overlooked in the past and now it has reared it's ugly head again. I'd like to see a 20-year follow-up on those whose tumours "disappeared".

The links about the ph balance studies are also still very controversable. There is apparently, no way that we can change the ph balance of our bodies by what we eat. It is a complex chemical reaction that has many organs and tissues involved and not just whether we have lemons in warm water every morning. There are women on these boards who have lived "perfect" organic lives with no western medicine additives, etc, that are still typing out questions about mastectomies and reconstruction...

It is only human for us to jump at every bit of hope that appears, but we keep modern medicine in our back pocket as the tried and true.

Hi ladies

I have been so interested in this thread and I have been in Western Medicine for 17 years. I actually had an appt with my GP yesterday and asked him about it and low and behold he answered that "aspirin is a miracle drug" he takes it and he is young in 40's and says the only reason we don't hear more about it is there is NO MONEY in it. This came from a traditional MD>

I bought a bottle of aspirin yesterday and the label says "The Wonder Drug"