Low-Dose Aspirin Stymies Proliferation of Two BC Lines

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cp418
cp418 Member Posts: 7,079
edited June 2014 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130421151610.htm

Regular use of low-dose aspirin may prevent the progression of breast cancer, according to results of a study by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and the University of Kansas Medical Center.

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  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited April 2013

    I have been taking this for last 8 years and it did not stop me developing BC...........or is it only progression to mets it stops?

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited April 2013

    I think the key words are "may prevent" not will prevent.

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited April 2013

    been taking it for a year now - my rationale has been tamoxifen increasing risks of blood clots, heart disease is in my family and bonus is this possibility of preventing BC recurrence.

    Funny? story here: so I bought a bottle of 300 St. Joseph's 81mg aspirins last year - so excited - because scarfing down the remains of a bottle of St. Joseph's aspirins and flushing an apple down the toilet were the two justifiably!! punishable events from when I was three years old. I don't think we ever had those delicious orange aspirins in the house again and with Reyes Syndrome - I didn't give my kids aspirin. fast forward to last year - finally, my own giant bottle of St. Joseph's - well it turns out they were enterically coated and not chewable!! bummer. so finally, yesterday I was finished with the bottle and purchased a new bottle - of orange chewables this time. I told my husband I had waited 60 years for this - mmmm good! but I can control myself now - one a day!

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited April 2013

    Jelson, so funny! I remember loving those baby aspirin tabs too! Probably ate, or tried to eat, a few too many at times. Apple flush is a new one though!

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  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 6,197
    edited April 2013

    This is interesting. I was Dx with Mondors disease after my Mx. My surgeon told me to take low dose asprin, as the only treatment, and to stay on it for life. Apparently, studies are showing, particularly in women, that it is helpful in preventing bowel cancer, and of course heart disease.

    Who'd have thought the little asprin could do all this?

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  • Charz
    Charz Member Posts: 48
    edited April 2013

    does anyone know if asprin reacts with tamoxifen? as in is it like grapefruit or some antidepressants that are said to block tamoxifen from working?

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited April 2013

    Oh, how I loved those orange flavored St.Joseph's aspirin tablets! It's a wonder I didn't do some great harm to myself.

    Caryn

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited April 2013

    I was diagnosed in 2010 and asked my oncologist about aspirin since it was in the news then.  She told me I could take it a couple of times per week, so that's what I do. It looks like it makes no difference if you take it everyday or a few days per week. I hate to take something everyday, anyway (I'm looking at you, Tamoxifen).

    I was so happy to get St. Joseph's chewable aspirin, too, after all these years. I had my own childhood experience with it. I was about 5 years old and my 4 year old brother was playing doctor and kept "prescribing" more and more aspirin until I ate the whole bottle.  My mother finally appeared on the scene, figured out what had happened and I had to go to the hospital and get my stomach pumped out! I still remember the walls in that room and the feeling of those tubes being pushed in my nostrils and how nice the nurses were.  I was crying because it was an emergency and their actions scared me.  We always call it "the time my brother tried to kill me."

    Edited to add: Charz, since my MO prescribed Tamoxifen and told me I could take low-dose aspirin a few days per week, I'm sure there's not an interaction between the two. 

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  • Outfield
    Outfield Member Posts: 1,109
    edited April 2013

    I didn't know they still made those little orange fellows.  I'd love to find some.  As for the apple down the toilet, I have done that twice, and I didn't have the excuse of being a 3 year old.  Once at maybe 13 and again at about 40.  I've just absentmindedly tossed it in then flushed before realizing what I'd done.  At least I had gnawed them a bit.  My grandfather flushed a pair of socks.  Must run in the family.

    Aspirin is very interesting.  It's far from innocuous, but for many of us the risk of dying from breast cancer is a lot higher than the risk of getting a serious bleeding ulcer from aspirin.  For those of us without extra-risky stomachs, even if it's much less beneficial than the 71% (sounds astounding and unbelievable) mentioned here, it could still be worth it.

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