Taking aspirin regularly may reduce the risk of most types of colon cancer, a new study suggests.
In the study, people who took aspirin at least twice a week were 27
percent less likely to develop colon cancer over a 28-year period,
compared with those who took aspirin less frequently, or not at all.
However, this reduction in risk applied only to colon cancers
that did not have a mutation in a gene called BRAF. Taking aspirin
regularly did not reduce the risk of developing colon cancer with a BRAF
mutation; about 10 to 15 percent of colon cancers have this mutation.
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