Breast cancer, the most common cancer in the UK now kills more than 12,000 women and around 100 men in UK every year – the rates being increased by more than 50 percent over the last twenty years.
In the US, astoundingly the killer disease has been estimated to kill 40,460 women and 450 men! But, if you are a frequent user of the drug aspirin – for either relieving yourself of those minor aches and pains or to reduce fever, or even use it as an anti-inflammatory, it is found to eventually cut the breast cancer risk! – And that too, by considerably almost 25 percent.
Though previously the drug has been found to prevent heart attacks and blood clot formation in people with higher risk for developing blood clots, a recent study has come up with this breakthrough.
Yes, aspirin reduces breast cancer risk by blocking the key enzymes needed to form the cancerous tumors. And, if used regularly by women, the medicine ‘statistically’ drops the risk of breast cancer significantly.
But hold on! This finding of the link between aspirin and breast cancer does not straightaway allow you to justify your popping in the pill frequently — as, in an effort to cut breast cancer risk, the drugs’ overdoses may risk ‘gastric bleeding’ – damaging the stomach lining.