Aspirin Has No Benefit, May Increase Cancer Mortality – NEJM Study Reveals

September 20th, 2018

By Sayer Ji

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Bayer’s headaches don’t stop with Monsanto-related buyer’s remorse. Their most iconic pharmaceutical — aspirin — which they once marketed as a ‘wonder drug’ is now being revealed to have no health benefits to older adults, and may even cause significant harm.

I’ve been writing about the underreported dangers and overstated health benefits of aspirin for some years now. Sometimes it feels like swimming upstream, given how often mainstream reporting and thinking associates so-called “low-dose” aspirin usage with some kind of ‘wonder drug’ for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. But the truth is now catching up to this marketing hype, as evidenced by this recent NBC News headline: “Daily aspirin may be harmful for healthy, older adults, large study finds.”

According to the new report, healthy patients, 70 and older (65 for blacks and Hispanics), experienced no health benefits from taking aspirin. This is based on research published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, titled “Effect of Aspirin on Disability-Free Survival in the Healthy Elderly.” As summarized by a Forbes article advising older, healthy adults to “Toss Your Aspirin”:

“A major study conducted in the United States and Australia that enrolled about 19,000 healthy adults, 70 years and older (65 years and older for blacks and Hispanics in the United States), found that an enteric-coated, aspirin that is similar to the dose of a baby aspirin increased the risk of death, did not reduce the risk of heart disease or disability or dementia or cancer. In fact, the increase in mortality was attributed primarily to cancer. And those taking aspirin also had an increased risk of bleeding. Overall there was nothing in the plus column for aspirin. And no benefit was found in any particular subgroup.”

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