Aspirin, the ultra-cheap drug that’s ubiquitous in nearly everyone’s medicine cabinet, has a long been implicated as an anticancer drug. Strangely, however, the mechanisms of its purported anticancer ...

For some people, aspirin can help prevent colon cancer; now researchers have learned more about how that happens. It seems the medicine is able to halt an important process that has been connected to ...

Aspirin therapy's ability to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, seen in a large number of studies, appears to depend on the drug's inhibition of the COX-2 enzyme, the action that also underlies ...

A new technique called metabolite profiling has been used by scientists to identify a biochemical pathway previously unknown to be regulated by aspirin. Specifically, the researchers found that ...

An international research team headed by scientists at the University of Cambridge has uncovered a mechanism that may underpin how aspirin could reduce the metastasis of some cancers by preventing an ...

Long-term daily use of aspirin can help to prevent the development and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC) but the mechanisms involved have been unclear. New research headed by investigators at the ...