"If aspirin is truly risk-reducing, it would be a very exciting finding," Gierach said in a telephone interview.
Estrogen receptor or ER-positive breast cancer is fueled by estrogen and aspirin may interfere with this hormone's activity.
"Even though it's a small reduction in relative risk, since ER-positive breast cancers are the more common types, if this result is confirmed to be true it could have potentially a big public health impact," Gierach said.
The research involved about 127,000 women aged 51 to 72 from around the United States who were cancer-free when the study began. About 18 percent of the women were daily aspirin users. They were tracked for seven years and about 4,500 of them developed breast cancer.
The study did not find any relationship between aspirin and the less-common estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer. It also did not find any protective effect in women who took aspirin less than daily.
The study, published in BioMed Central's open-access journal Breast Cancer Research, is the latest to suggest aspirin offers benefits beyond relieving headaches and body aches and reducing fevers.
Aspirin is a common anti-inflammatory painkiller that can be used to relieve symptoms of arthritis and prevent second heart attacks and other ailments. Previous research has indicated it also may protect against colorectal cancer.
Re: Aspirin may help reduce breast cancer , u wont believe how?
May 5 2008, 5:09 PM
The main reason I made that post is to inform girls that are on NBE that are using Phytoestrogens that aspirin affects the estrogen receptors, so they should probably stay out of aspirin. I found the article i posted on
