Aspirin Helps Prevent Cancer Spread
Larrian on March 13th, 2008 | Filed under Cancer, Drugs
Aspirin may be the wonder drug after all, according to new research published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. Researchers found that cancer cells need platelets to hitch a ride to distant sites in the body, and that aspirin can help slow that process down, especially when combined with new, experimental drugs that interfere with platelet cells forming a shield around the cancer cells.
This is exciting new work, now that the field of Oncology has taken a more specific and less total body lethal approach to managing cancer. The study was done in mice and looked at breast and melanoma bone cancer mets. Combining the two drugs significantly lowered the metastatic cell count without bleeding issues. Neither drug alone made a significant dent in the process, but the combination worked in unexpected ways.
I think we will see more and more of these “combo” drugs using well tolerated non-patentable drugs like aspirin, combined in new, exciting ways with super-drugs, lessening the dangerous side effects when one superselects a specific cellular pathway without compensating for its natural opposite balance in the body. Who knows…we may be making Dr. McCoy’s statement in Star Trek true sooner than we think! ( and for those of you who don’t have a Sci Fi son-in-law, McCoy gives a woman a pill to regenerate her kidney rather than remove it..calling surgery barbaric!)
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