Low-Dose Aspirin Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer in Women With Diabetes

The same low-dose aspirin that many of these women take to prevent cardiovascular disease may also help reduce their risk of breast cancer.

Women with diabetes over 14 years showed an overall 18% reduced breast cancer risk for women who used low-dose aspirin compared to those who did not.

Low-dose aspirin use is defined as intake of 75-165 mg daily in the article entitled "Low-Dose Aspirin Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Women with Diabetes: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan," Yi-Sun Yang, MD, PhD, Chien-Ning Huang, MD, PhD, and coauthors from Chung Shan Medical University Hospital and Hung Kuang University, Taichung, Taiwan.

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‘Intake of 75-165 mg daily reduced breast cancer risk by 47% in women who were diabetic for more than a decade.’

The researchers reported that a high cumulative dose of aspirin over the 14-year study period reduced breast cancer risk by 47%, whereas low and medium cumulative doses did not reduce risk.

"Women with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of breast cancer, and these results suggest that the same low-dose aspirin that many of these women take to prevent cardiovascular disease may also help reduce their risk of breast cancer," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health.

Source-Eurekalert

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