People who took aspirin daily for five years or longer were less likely to die of cancer. The study that spawned this good news, published recently in the British journal The Lancet, probably cheered those already taking a baby aspirin a day to prevent a heart attack or stroke. But the inevitable wet blanket was thrown on the new finding by another British journal, the BMJ. Even low-dose aspirin has adverse effects that could be large enough to cancel any lifesaving benefit.
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