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Why is aspirin supposed to be uncoated for melanoma prevention?
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Not true: Stanford study showed that postmenopausal women had a lower incidence of melanoma. This was only an association between aspirin and the reduced risk for melanoma, not that aspirin actually helped prevent it. Possible that aspirin's anti-inflammatory properties responsible for lowering the risk. of melanoma. Other studies did not hold up
Answered 2/7/2015
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