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It's one of the most feared diseases.   The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2013, about 22,240 new cases of it will be diagnosed and 14,030 women will die of it in the United States. We're talking about ovarian cancer and it's so deadly because it's most often diagnosed at a late stage, when it may already have spread to other organs.   But what if there were something simple you could take every day to try to prevent this disease? What if it were something that's also supposed to ward off heart attacks and colon cancer, too? It's the miraculous aspirin .   According to newswise.com, w omen who take aspirin daily may reduce their risk of ovarian cancer by 20 percent, according to a study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.   "Symptoms associated with this disease can mimic more common conditions, such as digestive and bladder disorders, so for this reason and others, it is ofte...

Yes, indeed.  We've known for a while that for some reason, taking aspirin daily may help prevent heart disease and certain cancers. But no one knew why until now. A new study has found that "aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells in at least one pre-cancerous condition," according to a story at newswise.com.  Aspirin apparently lowers "mutation rates." Cancer is caused by the mutating of genes, and up till now, no one has been able to figure out why some genes do, and some don't.  That's the answer to the hundred-million-dollar question.  What turns these cell changes on and off?  There's the cure for cancer. Something I found interesting recently was that inflammation  damages DNA and often, particularly with chronic diseases, that's what leads to cancer.  Inflammation, a response of the immune system, in recent years has been recognized as a hallmark of cancer. Medicalnewstoday.com puts it better than I can...