Mali Barbi, Medical Oncologist at Northwell Health, shared a post on X:
“Is the key to Endometrial Cancer prevention in your medicine cabinet? (Hint: Probably not)
New PLCO data (N=42,394) links frequent ibuprofen to a 25% risk reduction and 43% for those with heart disease. But aspirin showed… nothing!
If a study is ‘blind’ to the gold-standard aspirin signal (HR 0.98), the ibuprofen ‘win’ is likely a methodological artifact or a fluke of self-reporting.
>>Clean epidemiology must detect the knowns before we trust the unknowns.”
More posts from Mali Barbi on OncoDaily.