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Aspirin and Cancer Prevention

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Closed Clinical Trials

Current knowledge about aspirin's potential role in cancer prevention comes from a range of clinical trials that are now completed and closed to enrollment. The following link provides a list of such trials drawn from PDQ®, the clinical trials database of the National Cancer Institute.

The list includes not only prevention trials, but also studies of what affect aspirin might have on such cancer-related issues as blood clotting and pain. Findings from these trials may or may not have been published in the medical literature. Aspirin's chemical name is acetylsalicyclic acid.

Closed clinical trials involving aspirin