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Aspirin Use Linked With Pancreatic Cancer

A study presented at an October, 2003 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Phoenix, Arizona says that women who take an aspirin-a-day may run a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Eva Schernhammer of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston led the study involving more than 88,000 nurses. Schernhammer found that female nurses who took two or more aspirin a week for 20 years or more ran a 58 percent higher risk for pancreatic cancer. Women who took 14 or more per week had an 86 percent higher risk.

The findings surprised doctors because they originally thought that the aspirin would offer protection against pancreatic cancer.

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