[mannyv]

For two specific groups, aspirin reduces the recurrence of colorectal cancer by around 50%.

Group a: 7.7% with aspirin vs 14.1% recurrence without aspirin.

Group b: 7.7% with aspirin vs 16.8% recurrence without aspirin.

What's nice is that these are real occurrences, not relative risk percentages. They don't need fuzzy numbers to make their results significant.

Of course, there's also the line at the bottom: "Severe adverse events occurred in 16.8% of aspirin recipients and 11.6% of placebo recipients." Ouch. So if you can make it past that increase in severe adverse events you'll be fine.

[nikolay]

People don't know how to take aspirin! There are side effects other than stomach bleeding, but this most frequent issue is easily countered by taking pure aspirin together with DGL or vitamin C... or maybe both. I've heard it from a person who's in aspirin research taking it with gelatin also addresses the potential bleeding.

[sudoshred]

How severe? Worse than colon cancer?