Aspirin vs Melanoma Study Suggest Headache Pill Prevents Deadly Skin Cancer

"It's not the first study that finds the lowly aspirin may protect against the deadliest kind of skin cancer, but it is one of the largest."

"And it adds to a mounting pile of studies suggesting that cheap, common aspirin lowers the risk of many cancers — of the colon, breast, esophagus, stomach, prostate, bladder and ovary."

"The new study, in the journal Cancer, looked at melanoma in 60,000 post-menopausal Caucasian women. (Light-skinned people have the highest risk of this cancer.) Over a 12-year period, women who took aspirin at least a couple of times a week had a 20 percent lower risk of developing melanoma."