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wel cancer, they probably aren't going to be dramatically harmed by taking aspirin.

"They may have some risk of bleeding in the stomach, but they will see potentially significant benefits in the reduction of their colon cancer risk.

"In that situation, I think taking aspirin daily would be worthwhile."

Dr Andrew Chan, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, writing in the Lancet, said the findings were "convincing evidence" that aspirin can reduce the incidence of bowel cancer.

But he added: "With the concerns about the potential risks of long-term aspirin use and the availability of alternative prevention strategies - such as screening - these findings are not sufficient to warrant a recommendation for the general population to use aspirin for cancer prevention."

Rob Glynne-Jones, chief medical advisor to the charity Bowel Cancer UK, said: "This is very interesting and it certainly confirms what we already know and believe about the links between aspirin, polyps and the development of bowel cancer.

"However, these findings are not an indication that the general population should rush out and take what is a high dosage of aspirin on a daily basis.

"Aspirin at this dose over a prolonged period of time could lead to potentially serious side effects in a few people."

According to another recent study, women who take aspirin in low or moderate doses reduce their risk of dying from any cause, particularly heart disease.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that women in the study who took one to 14 aspirin a week reduced their risk of dying from heart disease by 38 percent and by 25 percent from all causes. The researchers used 24 years of data from 79,439 nurses enrolled in the Nurses Health Study.


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