By E.J. Mundell
HealthDay Reporter Fri Dec 15, 2:01 PM ET
FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- For years, experts have noted that people who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for pain relief also lower their risk for a variety of cancers.
Now, scientists believe they know why that happens.
New research shows that NSAIDs -- which include aspirin, ibuprofen, Aleve and Celebrex -- boost the level of a cellular molecule that causes malignant cells to die off.
The finding "opens up our understanding of how anti-inflammatory drugs are effective against cancer cells. This could also lead to new drug development and of monitoring drugs' effect on cancer cells," said study senior author Towia Libermann, director of the Genomics Center at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
His team published its findings in the Dec. 15 issue of Cancer Research......
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