An apple a day may keep the doctor away for most people, but for breast cancer survivors it may be a daily aspirin that does the trick.
A study published yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology’s online edition summed up the findings of a 30-year study by doctors and researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard, as follows:
“Among women living at least 1 year after a breast cancer diagnosis, aspirin use was associated with a...
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