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A common drug sitting in your medicine cabinet right now may help fight cancer

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It’s been a go-to for headaches, fevers, and sore muscles for over a century. But new research suggests that aspirin—the everyday over-the-counter medication sitting in your cabinet—might also have another, far more unexpected use as an anti-cancer drug. Scientists have been eyeing aspirin as a potential preventative for cancer since the late 1980s when early studies found that regular aspirin use was linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer.…

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A common drug sitting in your medicine cabinet right now may help fight cancer

It’s been a go-to for headaches, fevers, and sore muscles for over a century. But new research suggests that aspirin—the everyday over-the-counter medication sitting in your cabinet—might also have another, far more unexpected use as an anti-cancer drug. Scientists have been eyeing aspirin as a potential preventative for cancer since the late 1980s when early studies found that regular aspirin use was linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer.…

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