According to a series of studies published Wednesday by "The
Lancet," a United Kingdom medical journal, the key to preventing
cancer could be sitting in everyone's medicine cabinent, resting
between the band-aides and cough syrup. The studies concluded
that a daily dose of Aspirin could help prevent cancer. While
many take aspirin daily for the prevention heart disease, it
appears there may be another life-saving use for that small
white pill that is so common in most households. After five
years, trial subjects who had been taking aspirin daily had
reduced their risk of cancers like colon cancer, lung cancer,
and prostate cancer by 35 percent, the studies found. However,
the Aspirin did not reduce the risk of all cancers, for example,
blood cancer risk was not decreased with aspirin consumption.
The studies were conducted by Peter Rothwell and fellow
researchers of the University of Oxford and John Radcliffe
Hospital. They concluded, "These findings provide the first
proof in man that aspirin prevents distan