Word: colons
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...known, and others related to drug use, says Raffaele Guariniello, a Turin prosecutor who has investigated doping in football and cycling. A study of health records of some 24,000 Italian football pros from 1960 to '96 turned up nearly twice the typical rate of liver, pancreatic and colon cancers. Sometimes unwittingly, footballers have used steroids, such as nandrolone, which are known to raise the risk of certain cancers. The now-anecdotal link between athletes and ALS is unexpected, and alarming. The Italian study uncovered eight cases over the past three decades, when the expected incidence of this rare disease...
...this mean that everybody should start taking daily doses of aspirin? Not necessarily. Aspirin, after all, carries its own risks, including internal bleeding, stomach ulcers, allergies and in rare cases strokes. The patients in these two studies were selected because they were known to be at high risk for colon cancer--which tended to tip the risk-benefit ratio in their favor. Whether daily aspirin use makes sense for the rest of us is still not clear...
...role in spurring cell growth that can lead to tumors. But for reasons no one can yet explain, higher doses of aspirin didn't translate into more protection. In one of the studies reported last week, more patients in the group taking full-strength, 325-mg aspirin pills developed colon cancer (10.7%) than in the group taking so-called baby, or 81-mg, aspirin (7.7%). The cancer rate in the placebo group, by contrast...
...reason to suspect that other anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil and Motrin or the newer COX-2 inhibitors Vioxx and Celebrex, might offer similar protection, only aspirin has been rigorously tested. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not an anti-inflammatory, so don't expect it to protect you against colon or any other cancer...
...gastroenterologist at Indiana University School of Medicine, takes pains to remind readers that aspirin alone is not a substitute for regular colonoscopy screenings, which enable doctors to locate and snip off growths before they become cancerous. It is also worth remembering that there are other ways to prevent colon cancer, including reducing the saturated fats in your diet and increasing your intake of folate-rich leafy green vegetables. You should probably also limit your consumption of red meat, processed meats and refined carbohydrates. And if you smoke, you should definitely quit...