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Further research has provided more evidence to suggest that individuals who take aspirin have a lower risk of dying from cancer. Researchers looked at data from two very large studies that followed groups of nurses and other healthcare professionals (more than 130,000 people in total) over a period of up to 32 years...

Lead researcher Professor Ruth Langley was delighted to accept a donation of £45,000 on behalf of CRUK from the Putney, Barnes, Sheen and Kew Group of Friends of Cancer Research UK. This donation was a result of the South West London Christmas Fair fundraising event organised by the group in November 2016.

This headline recently appeared in the Guardian with a number of other newspapers reporting on the same story. The report was about a large study conducted by researchers in the Netherlands. The researchers used national databases to identify people who had been diagnosed with cancer in the digestive system and see whether or not they took aspirin following their diagnosis...

This headline recently appeared on the BBC news, with a number of other newspapers reporting on the same story. The report was about a study in mice by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute. The scientists looked at drugs known as Cox-inhibitors (aspirin is a type of Cox-inhibitor). Their results suggested that using these drugs alongside cancer treatments that are designed to allow the body’s own immune system to attack the cancer may make the treatment more effective...

This headline recently appeared in The Times. It was a report of a large Danish study which has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers looked at cancer registries and data on aspirin prescriptions for more than 10,000 individuals in Denmark.  They aimed to see whether taking aspirin affected an individual’s risk of developing bowel cancer...