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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...

Researchers presenting work at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer  Research have suggested that people taking aspirin regularly may have a lower risk of cancer...

An article entitled "Aspirin can increase risk of bowel cancer for some study suggests" recently appeared in the Daily Telegraph.  The report referred to an American study, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) The study looked at data from 10 previous studies that collected information on use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) before a diagnosis of bowel cancer was made...

Add-Aspirin collaborators at the Tata Memorial Hospital have been awarded funding from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust to conduct the trial in India. They are now able to proceed with setting up the trial with the aim of opening in India later this year...