New research is being carried out aimed at understanding how aspirin may improve outcomes in breast cancer patients.
It follows recent research which found that the disease was less likely to spread to the lymphnodes of those women who had been prescribed aspirin regularly before being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Researchers are looking to gather information from almost 3-thousand breast cancer patients around the country.
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Dr. Sinead Walsh from the Irish Cancer Society, says patients should talk to their GP about the role of aspirin in breast cancer: