{"id":1620,"date":"2012-03-22T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2012-04-28T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T09:20:20","slug":"aspirin-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/aspirin-for-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspirin for cancer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is aspirin?\u00a0 Now manufactured in a lab it originally started as a natural remedy based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspirin#History\">extract of willow bark<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a magic cure for headaches and now cancer.\u00a0 But it has side effects because it does change the consistency of blood and increases the chance of internal bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a low dose of aspirin every day can prevent and possibly even treat cancer.\u00a0\u00a0 The three new studies published by The Lancet add to mounting evidence of the drug&#8217;s anti-cancer effects.\u00a0 Many people already take daily aspirin as a heart drug.\u00a0 But experts warn that there is still not enough proof to recommend it to prevent cancer cases and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-17443454\">Daily aspirin &#8216;prevents and possibly treats cancer&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-17445676\">Daily aspirin: Risks and benefits<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-11930988\">Daily aspirin &#8216;cuts cancer risk&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-16468337\">Routine aspirin &#8216;may cause harm&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is aspirin?\u00a0 Now manufactured in a lab it originally started as a natural remedy based on extract of willow bark.\u00a0 It is a magic cure for headaches and now cancer.\u00a0 But it has side effects because it does change the consistency of blood and increases the chance of internal bleeding. Taking a low dose &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/aspirin-for-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aspirin for cancer.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-q8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}