prevention

Fish Oil supplements and Cancer treatment.

I’ve changed my mind on Fish oil supplements during cancer treatment. The data that continues to accumulate shows a benefit in reducing colon cancer rates, and improving the time to disease progression in Stage 4 colon, lung and breast cancer patients. There are situations not to take them like a pre-operative interval or if there is a risk of bleeding, Overall, there is benefit, but do discuss it with your own treating oncologist.

Does Aspirin prevent Cancer?

Does Aspirin prevent Cancer?

 

This has been an attractive avenue of cancer prevention, as aspirin is inexpensive, and mostly safe. It is routinely and effectively used to reduce deaths from cardiac disease and strokes. Recently, several studies have been published which have strengthened the observation that a daily, low dose aspirin reduces the risk of dying from cancer from 15 to 37 %, when taken for longer periods of time.