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Cancer and Daily Aspirin? Big Pharma's At It Again...
Date: 03/11/11
Have you ever repeatedly had the same conversation with a
friend about a certain topic and no matter how hard you
tried to get your point across or backed up your argument
with cold, hard facts, they just wouldn't agree?
Well that's how I feel about the mainstream's obsession with aspirin!.. Not that I'll ever consider Big Pharma to be a friend of mine and neither do I think they'll ever come around to my way of thinking...
Crazy speak
Here's the latest so-called 'medical miracle' linked to aspirin: According to a recent study, published in The Lancet, taking a high dose of aspirin daily could cut your risk of developing hereditary cancer.
The study, which tracked 1,000 patients in 16 countries for more than four years, was conducted by researchers from Queens University and Newcastle University, in the UK. The researchers focused principally on people with Lynch syndrome, an inherited genetic disorder that causes cancer by affecting genes responsible for detecting and repairing DNA damage.
The study looked at all cancers related to Lynch syndrome – including colon, rectal, stomach, and endometrial cancer – and found that almost 30 per cent of the patients that didn't take aspirin (they took a starch-based placebo) had developed cancer compared to around 15 per cent of those taking a daily aspirin. For colorectal cancer, the risk reduction was 63 per cent.
Here's where the craziness starts.In order to reap this cancer prevention benefit, the researchers recommend that one must take 600mg of aspirin per day for two years! That's right, almost 4 times the amount recommended for people at risk of heart disease (although that's certainly not a recommendation we'd ever make!). Now that's A LOT of aspirin over a long period of time! Especially when you consider that gastrointestinal bleeding (which can be life-threatening) and duodenal ulcers are two of the most common side effects of prolonged aspirin use... In addition, too much aspirin can prevent beneficial blood clotting, potentially increasing the risk of internal bleeding after an accident or during surgery.
So, my first question is, why on earth do you want to prevent stomach cancer with a drug that causes gastrointestinal bleeding and stomach ulcers? Talk about swapping one disease for another...
But wait, I have two more questions:
1. Who's one of the biggest aspirin manufacturers in the world?... Bayer.
2. Who sponsored the trial?... Bayer! This should come as little surprise, because Bayer already funds cancer research as part of an expressed corporate mission to develop drugs to defeat the disease.
Handy isn't it, the pharmaceutical giant makes a drug, then sponsors the trial that proves the benefits of the drug against a disease which the same company is already developing drugs for in an attempt to defeat it...
Too many fingers in way too many pies, is all I can say...
Luckily, some mainstreamers feel the same way I do. The American Cancer Society thinks it would be premature, at this point, to put everyone on a daily aspirin. Eric Jacobs, a cancer society official, warned that it will take time for experts to put these new results together with the existing evidence and consider for whom the benefits of aspirin use are likely to outweigh the risks.
Don't follow their lead
Unfortunately, there are others who ignore these warnings. Dr Stefan Gluck, associate chief of haematology and oncology at the University of Miami, in the US, says he has already been recommending a daily aspirin to his patients. He said the meta-analysis findings "only confirm what has been known for a while — the nature of the study just makes the statement stronger."
Hmmm... I don't know, if Gluck was my doctor, I'd probably start looking for another one...
See there's a much bigger picture here... The next thing we'll hear is that everyone over a certain age should take an aspirin daily... In fact, Prof Rothwell, of the John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University, has already suggested this. He said, since colorectal cancers start to appear in people aged 55 and older, the ideal time to start taking aspirin would be in our 40s and to continue with it until around the age of 75 when the side effects of aspirin start to outweigh the benefits...
This reminds me of the same stunt Big Pharma tried to pull with cholesterol-lowering statins and the Polypill...
Two other recent studies, suggest that statins (taken by more than five million people in the UK), may be useful in treating patients with breast cancer, as well as prostate cancer. So, my guess is that the daily statin-aspirin combination will once again rear its ugly head very soon...
In the end, it's all about the money: There's 44,000 cases of breast cancer, 39,000 cases of colorectal cancer and around 38,000 cases of prostate cancer in the UK per year... Add the 5 million that are already taking statins, give the whole bunch a daily combination of aspirin and statins for the next 35 years of their lives and what do you get?
A very steady cash flow, straight into the pockets of Big Pharma...
I don't know... If it's not the flu jab then it's either statins or aspirin (or both) that will apparently save us all from a slow and painful demise... I'm getting bored hearing the same old story from Big Pharma...
Sources:
Prostate cancer statistics: Cancer Research UK, published online, info.cancerresearchuk.org
All over 40s should consider daily dose of aspirin: leading expert, published online 22.10.11, telegraph.co.uk
Statins may help prevent breast cancer, published online 20.04.09, telegraph.co.uk
Long-Term Daily Aspirin Cuts Cancer Deaths, Study Suggests, published online 06.12.10
Back to topWell that's how I feel about the mainstream's obsession with aspirin!.. Not that I'll ever consider Big Pharma to be a friend of mine and neither do I think they'll ever come around to my way of thinking...
Crazy speak
Here's the latest so-called 'medical miracle' linked to aspirin: According to a recent study, published in The Lancet, taking a high dose of aspirin daily could cut your risk of developing hereditary cancer.
The study, which tracked 1,000 patients in 16 countries for more than four years, was conducted by researchers from Queens University and Newcastle University, in the UK. The researchers focused principally on people with Lynch syndrome, an inherited genetic disorder that causes cancer by affecting genes responsible for detecting and repairing DNA damage.
The study looked at all cancers related to Lynch syndrome – including colon, rectal, stomach, and endometrial cancer – and found that almost 30 per cent of the patients that didn't take aspirin (they took a starch-based placebo) had developed cancer compared to around 15 per cent of those taking a daily aspirin. For colorectal cancer, the risk reduction was 63 per cent.
Here's where the craziness starts.In order to reap this cancer prevention benefit, the researchers recommend that one must take 600mg of aspirin per day for two years! That's right, almost 4 times the amount recommended for people at risk of heart disease (although that's certainly not a recommendation we'd ever make!). Now that's A LOT of aspirin over a long period of time! Especially when you consider that gastrointestinal bleeding (which can be life-threatening) and duodenal ulcers are two of the most common side effects of prolonged aspirin use... In addition, too much aspirin can prevent beneficial blood clotting, potentially increasing the risk of internal bleeding after an accident or during surgery.
So, my first question is, why on earth do you want to prevent stomach cancer with a drug that causes gastrointestinal bleeding and stomach ulcers? Talk about swapping one disease for another...
But wait, I have two more questions:
1. Who's one of the biggest aspirin manufacturers in the world?... Bayer.
2. Who sponsored the trial?... Bayer! This should come as little surprise, because Bayer already funds cancer research as part of an expressed corporate mission to develop drugs to defeat the disease.
Handy isn't it, the pharmaceutical giant makes a drug, then sponsors the trial that proves the benefits of the drug against a disease which the same company is already developing drugs for in an attempt to defeat it...
Too many fingers in way too many pies, is all I can say...
Luckily, some mainstreamers feel the same way I do. The American Cancer Society thinks it would be premature, at this point, to put everyone on a daily aspirin. Eric Jacobs, a cancer society official, warned that it will take time for experts to put these new results together with the existing evidence and consider for whom the benefits of aspirin use are likely to outweigh the risks.
Don't follow their lead
Unfortunately, there are others who ignore these warnings. Dr Stefan Gluck, associate chief of haematology and oncology at the University of Miami, in the US, says he has already been recommending a daily aspirin to his patients. He said the meta-analysis findings "only confirm what has been known for a while — the nature of the study just makes the statement stronger."
Hmmm... I don't know, if Gluck was my doctor, I'd probably start looking for another one...
See there's a much bigger picture here... The next thing we'll hear is that everyone over a certain age should take an aspirin daily... In fact, Prof Rothwell, of the John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University, has already suggested this. He said, since colorectal cancers start to appear in people aged 55 and older, the ideal time to start taking aspirin would be in our 40s and to continue with it until around the age of 75 when the side effects of aspirin start to outweigh the benefits...
This reminds me of the same stunt Big Pharma tried to pull with cholesterol-lowering statins and the Polypill...
Two other recent studies, suggest that statins (taken by more than five million people in the UK), may be useful in treating patients with breast cancer, as well as prostate cancer. So, my guess is that the daily statin-aspirin combination will once again rear its ugly head very soon...
In the end, it's all about the money: There's 44,000 cases of breast cancer, 39,000 cases of colorectal cancer and around 38,000 cases of prostate cancer in the UK per year... Add the 5 million that are already taking statins, give the whole bunch a daily combination of aspirin and statins for the next 35 years of their lives and what do you get?
A very steady cash flow, straight into the pockets of Big Pharma...
I don't know... If it's not the flu jab then it's either statins or aspirin (or both) that will apparently save us all from a slow and painful demise... I'm getting bored hearing the same old story from Big Pharma...
Sources:
Prostate cancer statistics: Cancer Research UK, published online, info.cancerresearchuk.org
All over 40s should consider daily dose of aspirin: leading expert, published online 22.10.11, telegraph.co.uk
Statins may help prevent breast cancer, published online 20.04.09, telegraph.co.uk
Long-Term Daily Aspirin Cuts Cancer Deaths, Study Suggests, published online 06.12.10
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