Taking aspirin may be able to positively assist in cancer treatments. A new and exciting approach to cancer treatment is immunotherapy—letting the immune system fight off cancer with assisting drugs. Recent studies have shown that aspirin may be just the drug to take to help supplement the treatments. “The team showed that skin, breast and bowel cancer cells were producing high levels of a chemical, called prostaglandin E2, that could dampen down the immune response – effectively letting a tumour hide. However, drugs like aspirin are able to change the chemical pathways inside the cancer cells that lead to prostaglandin E2 being produced.” Aspirin could therefore make the tumors visible to the immune system in order to fight them off. While the hypothesis has not yet been tested on human cancer patients, the leads of the study are hoping to move forward with clinical trials on humans.

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