'Miracle drug', indeed

[Gerarddm]

The original miracle drug has to be good ol' aspirin. Latest evidence:

STUDY http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/cheats/2012/03/20/daily-aspirin-may-prevent-cancer.img.204.136.1332301963546.jpg Bayer HealthCare / AP Photo
9. Daily Aspirin May Prevent Cancer (http://forum.woodenboat.com/cheats/2012/03/20/daily-aspirin-may-prevent-cancer.html)An aspirin a day keeps cancer at bay, if three studies are to be believed. The studies conducted by Oxford University suggest that a daily dose of aspirin may not only prevent cancer in the short term, but also reduces the chance that cancer will spread to other organs by up to 50 percent. Previous studies showed that taking an aspirin a day reduces the chance of getting cancer in the long term.


Read it at Reuters (http://news.yahoo.com/studies-aspirin-day-keep-cancer-bay-000306036.html)

[JimD]

I'm just glad Bayer is no longer selling heroin.

[Waddie]

I would prefer all drugs be legalized and Bayer selling heroin as opposed to the people selling it now.


regards,
Waddie

[S.V. Airlie]

It should be covered by Obamacare of course.:)

[ron ll]

Please note that a daily aspirin regimen is usually 80mg, not the 300 or 500 "Extra Strength" in the picture. Costco sells them a LOT cheaper than Bayer and aspirin is aspirin. I've been taking one 80g per day for the last 10-12 years. Also use caution if you are on any other blood thinners.

[MiddleAgesMan]

Since the introduction of enteric aspirin, I don't understand why stomach bleeds are still a possible side effect, unless, of course, you're taking plain aspirin. The coating on enteric aspirin prevents the pill from dissolving in one's stomach so it would be slow to work on pain but since it dissolves as soon as the pill reaches the small intestine how can it be causing bleeding in the stomach?

[Uncle Duke]

There is a potential "new" aspirin in testing - "NOSH" aspirin. Still in testing, of course:

Scientists from The City College of New York have developed a new aspirin compound that has great promise to be not only an extremely potent cancer-fighter, but even safer than the classic medicine cabinet staple.

The new designer aspirin curbed the growth of 11 different types of human cancer cells in culture without harming normal cells, reported a team from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of The City College of New York in a paper published this month in the journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. The cancers controlled included colon, pancreatic, lung, prostate, breast, and leukemia.

The aspirin compound also shrank human colon cancer tumors by 85 percent in live animals, again without adverse effects, according to a second paper in press by the City College researchers and colleague Kenneth Olson of Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308132812.htm

[stevebaby]

Since the introduction of enteric aspirin, I don't understand why stomach bleeds are still a possible side effect, unless, of course, you're taking plain aspirin. The coating on enteric aspirin prevents the pill from dissolving in one's stomach so it would be slow to work on pain but since it dissolves as soon as the pill reaches the small intestine how can it be causing bleeding in the stomach? It may cause bleeding in the small intestine instead. That is quite unpleasant.

[Lew Barrett]

I'm just glad Bayer is no longer selling heroin.

Part of IG Farben in WWII. Not a pretty picture.
I take a small enteric aspirin (not Bayer branded!) every day and the bleeding is entirely controllable! A pint of type O in the evening replaces all the losses, and my ulcers only hurt when I laugh.

[ron ll]

and my ulcers only hurt when I laugh.

They must hurt a lot Lew. :)

[MiddleAgesMan]

How is that pint of blood administered, Lew?

[ron ll]

How is that pint of blood administered, Lew?

I'm thinking "Type O" may be a brand of rum.

[Lew Barrett]

How is that pint of blood administered, Lew?

Taken orally from the necks of virgins, double portion when there is a full moon!


I'm thinking "Type O" may be a brand of rum.

The rum is taken as a chaser!

[David W Pratt]

Middle-
Aspirin inhibits some prostaglandins which are anti ulcer, so it is a systemic effect.
Thirty years ago, people in pharmaceuticals said aspirin could never get approved by the FDA if it were a new drug bc of the bleeding.
Now it would be $4.00 a pill for CV and oncology prevention.