Aspirin helps prevent recurring colorectal adenomas - Folic acid does not

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Lundberg, George D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID; PLACEBO; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ADENOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASPIRIN; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 42449147798     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (2)

1. Logan RF, Grainge MJ, Shepherd VC, Armitage NC, Muir KR. Aspirin and folic acid for the prevention of recurrent colorectal adenomas. Gastroenterology. 2008;134:29-38.
2. Material for the Medscape Medical Minute is drawn from Medscape Best Evidence. Available at: http://www.medscape.com/pages/features/ newsletters/bestevidence/gastroenterology Accessed March 13, 2008.