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SUMMARY:Does aspirin prevent cancer and vascular disease? 40 years of data
  and controversy - Professor Peter Elwood\, Cardiff University
DTSTART:20180309T174500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Antonio M. M. Rodrigues
DESCRIPTION:‘To treat a disease is an admission of failure\,\nPrevention
  is the ultimate aim of medicine.’\nArchie Cochrane\n\nForty years ago a
  randomised controlled trial of aspirin in the prevention of heart attacks
  showed a 25% reduction in deaths and brought aspirin to the notice of car
 diologists. Ten years later benefit was confirmed in one of the first ‘o
 verviews’ conducted in medicine.  In 2011 a series of follow-up studies 
 of randomised trials showed a 40% reduction in cancer deaths and brought a
 spirin to the notice of oncologists. A reduction by aspirin in deaths and 
 in the spread of cancer has been confirmed in numerous overviews. \n\nBut\
 , aspirin is highly controversial.  Its benefits in both vascular disease 
 and cancer are widely acknowledged\, but its dangers in increasing stomach
  bleeds are held by many to outweigh the benefits.    \n\nThe present risk
 -benefit balance of aspirin prophylaxis will be presented and the talk wil
 l then focus on emerging evidence consistent with benefit in the treatment
  of cancer by aspirin.  \n\n\nProfessor Peter Elwood\, OBE\, DSc\, MD\, FR
 CP\, followed Archie Cochrane as Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit\, a
 nd on retirement in 1995 he was granted an honorary chair in Cardiff Unive
 rsity.  For over 50 years Elwood’s research has been on the prevention o
 f disease. In addition to work on aspirin\, in 1979 Elwood set up the Caer
 philly Cohort Study\, and has followed 2\,500 subjects for almost 40 years
 .  Results from Caerphilly leads Elwood to urge a healthy lifestyle - ‘b
 etter than any pill\, no cost and no side effects’!\n\n
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Gatsby Room
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