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...seriously should women take this study? In other words, should we all start downing aspirin in hopes of protecting against ovarian cancer...
...Toniolo: We took blood from more than 14,000 healthy women in 1985. Over the years, 68 of these women developed epithelial ovarian cancer. From the rest of the women, we found women who were about the same age as the women with ovarian cancer, and from those subjects, we selected at random 10 women as control subjects for each woman with cancer. So roughly 748 women were involved in the aspirin study...
...According to the American Cancer Society, 23,000 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year, and around 14,000, or 61 percent, will die. The disease takes a high toll because its symptoms are so easily ignored, and the cancer in many newly diagnosed patients is often quite advanced. Needless to say, any news about prevention, no matter how rudimentary, is most welcome...
...this news is no exception: Scientists at NYU tracked the health of 748 women over the course of 12 years and found that women who took aspirin regularly (two or three times a week) for at least six months were less likely to develop epithelial ovarian cancer than those who never took aspirin. And, the researchers say, women who took aspirin consistently over the course of two to four years were "significantly" less likely to be diagnosed with this type of ovarian cancer than women who never reported aspirin use. The study's authors speculate that the anti-inflammatory qualities...
...there proven ways of reducing the risk of ovarian cancer...