{"id":226180,"date":"2025-11-30T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-common-medicine-may-stop-colorectal-cancer-from-returning"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:04:12","slug":"a-common-medicine-may-stop-colorectal-cancer-from-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-common-medicine-may-stop-colorectal-cancer-from-returning","title":{"rendered":"A Common Medicine May Stop Colorectal Cancer From Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-medicine-may-stop-colorectal-cancer-from-returning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A low dose of aspirin each day may significantly reduce the chances of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/one-cancer-is-rising-rapidly-in-younger-people-and-bacteria-could-be-why\">colon and rectal cancer<\/a> returning in certain cases, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/clinical-trials\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">clinical trial<\/a> has found.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, the study involved 626 people with stages 1 to 3 colon or rectal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a>, and specific genetic mutations in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/breakthrough-therapy-obliterates-deadly-brain-tumor-in-days\">cancer tumors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/nejmoa1207756\">Previous studies<\/a> have suggested that cancers with these mutations \u2013 specifically in the PIK3 signaling pathway \u2013 could be targeted by aspirin, but this is the first time the hypothesis has been tested in a randomized clinical trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A low dose of aspirin each day may significantly reduce the chances of colon and rectal cancer returning in certain cases, a new clinical trial has found. Led by researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, the study involved 626 people with stages 1 to 3 colon or rectal cancer, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}