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I only read part of the CBC news.
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Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease.3 p; ~0 L& ] @: H2 H
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Among patients with the mutations, those who regularly took Aspirin lived longer than those who didn't, a major study found. Five years after their cancers were diagnosed, 97 per cent of the Aspirin users were still alive versus 74 per cent of those not taking the drug.: Y( L. p# X9 B) a
2 i; E& s* l" u& x3 h: r" @. iAspirin seemed to make no difference in patients who did not have the mutations.
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7 d( O6 Y( @8 a% oThis sort of study can't prove that the drug caused the better survival, and doctors say more research must confirm the findings before Aspirin can be recommended more widely. The study wasn't designed to test Aspirin; people were taking it on their own for various reasons.# ?# d/ \" k3 f* ?4 E; e; V% {
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Still, the results suggest that this simple medicine might be the cheapest gene-targeting therapy ever found for cancer. About one-sixth of all colon cancer patients have the mutated gene and might be helped. And Aspirin costs just pennies a day.
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