Aspirin and Bc

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Hey all, this has probably been covered before..but it's resurfaced in the news recently about how taking an aspirin a day can reduce the risk of cancer or in our case recurrence..do many people follow this..be interested to hear?

http://fox6now.com/2017/04/04/low-dose-aspirin-can-reduce-risk-of-death-from-cancer-research-says/

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited April 2017

    I've taken aspirin all my adult life. I never switched to Tylanol. I've had breast cancer twice.

  • dAd
    dAd Member Posts: 94
    edited April 2017

    Hi Lottemarine: Aspirin may well be a miracle drug. It can also reduce susceptibility to colon cancer quite dramatically and I think it also helps some other cancers (sorry I can'remember which ones).

  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited April 2017

    I’d been on low-dose aspirin therapy for five years before being diagnosed with bc. I take the adult enteric-coated version due to GERD. My husband Bob, a cardiologist, recently switched to children’s chewables (swallowing them) on the theory that more of the aspirin gets into the bloodstream because it is more completely digested. But he says I should keep taking the coated version.

    So why did I still get bc? Remember, just because the chances of getting something are lowered, they’re not lowered to zero. And that 7% reduction is 7% of the 12% lifetime chance (to age 80) of being diagnosed with bc. That 7% is a relative reduction. We are talking about an absolute risk reduction of…wait for it…0.84%. Yup, less than a 1% difference. Don’t start popping a daily baby aspirin unless you are at cardiovascular risk due to age, family history, or your own medical history & lifestyle. It is still a powerful drug which can do harm as well work miracles, not some innocuous nutritional supplement (not all of which are innocuous).

    To quote the late Warren Zevon in his song “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” (out of context, as he was referring to recreational drugs & alcohol), “I only take this medicine as prescribed.” Good advice in general.

  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited April 2017

    I took aspirin every day for years before diagnosis.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2017

    I'm taking one full strength aspirin every day. But important again to note that nothing is a cure and nothing can completely protect us from cancer. We are all susceptible--even those not dx--because cells just go haywire sometimes when copying themselves. However, I don't have any side effects from aspirin, it's relatively cheap, and if taking aspirin helps, coupled with the other lifestyle choices I've made to further help my body fight any recurrence, then why not do it? It can't hurt and may very well help. But I am not looking at it as though it's a silver bullet.


  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited May 2017

    Hi all,

    For more research on this topic, here's a study published by the Journal Breast Cancer Research.

    Study Suggests Link Between Low-Dose Aspirin and Lower Risk for Specific Type of Breast Cancer


  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited May 2017

    I took a full dose aspirin when I was put on tamoxifen; switched to baby aspirin just a few years ago. I'm not deluding myself that it will guarantee no recurrence, but it is all I have in my arsenal after finishing tamoxifen and arimidex. People taking NSAIDS also have a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease, so not for nothing, I take it. I get the baby aspirin from costco and chew it. Baby aspirin is overpriced and has added sugar and they are so small, I don't mind the few seconds of bitter.

  • exercise_guru
    exercise_guru Member Posts: 716
    edited May 2017

    I saw this article I am going to ask my MO about it. I was wondering about Tamoxifen and aspirin since both can cause stroke? Am I right about that. Can you take the two together.

  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited May 2017

    Exercise guru, I thought aspirin helps to prevent stroke and heart attack.

  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited May 2017

    Aspirin can cause a hemorrhagic stroke while tamoxifen can cause clots that cause ischemic strokes.

    Aspirin can prevent the clots from making blood less sticky. Too "unsticky" and high blood pressure or genetically "weaker" vessels can cause the other stroke.

  • muska
    muska Member Posts: 1,195
    edited May 2017

    My MO put me on baby aspirin - one pill every other day - soon after diagnosis.That was four years ago.

  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited May 2017

    Hi all,

    Thought you might be interested in the main Breastcancer.org site's take on this:

    Study Suggests Link Between Low-Dose Aspirin and Lower Risk for Specific Type of Breast Cancer
    May 4, 2017

    A preliminary study suggests that women who take low-dose aspirin 3 or more times per week have a lower risk of hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Still, it's too soon to recommend women start taking low-dose aspirin to reduce breast cancer risk. Read more...

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