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by jgrahamc 1816 days ago
What sort of "colon cancer scare" resulted in you taking baby aspirin?
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Mesalazine aka 5-ASA is an medication used to treat ulcerative colitis, crohn's and co. It's molecule is very similar to Aspirin. In fact, mesalazine is basically a localised form of aspirin for the gut. That's the logic I see in my head