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Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • Liver and Pancreas Tumors • Gastroenterology • Lynch Syndrome • Hereditary Cancers
Would you recommend aspirin 600 mg daily for two years to a patient with Lynch syndrome and a history of colon cancer based on the results of the CAPP2 study for cancer prevention?
Would you offer low dose or standard dose aspirin instead?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Yes, I would recommend this, with some caveats/considerations. 600 mg of aspirin daily x 2 years was the dose/duration shown to be effective in CAPP2--recently updated outcomes data from this trial (Lancet 2020) demonstrated an IRR of 0·50 (0·31–0·82; p=0·0057) for ...
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