Study shows that aspirin reduces lung cancer risk in women by a third

Women taking aspirin regularly are a third less likely to develop lung cancer than those not taking it, a major prospective cohort study published last week has shown.

The case-control study was part of the New York University women's health study–which enrolled 14 275 women aged 31 to 70 years when they attended a mammography screening clinic in New York city. All women completed a detailed self administered questionnaire at baseline, which they repeated at intervals of about two years.

This included questions on demographic, anthropometric, …