SynthesisBritish journal of cancer2009
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of gastric and oesophageal adenocarcinomas: results from a cohort study and a meta-analysis.
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85 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 180 citations in OpenAlex.
- Risk factors for gastric cancer: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Aspirin, metformin, and statin use on the risk of gastric cancer: A nationwide population-based cohort study in Korea with systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of mortality in lung cancer: A meta-analysis of 5 prospective cohorts studies.Medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Associations between aspirin use and the risk of cancers: a meta-analysis of observational studies.BMC cancer · 2018Pooled it
- Aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use reduce gastric cancer risk: A dose-response meta-analysis.Oncotarget · 2017Pooled it
- Population-wide Impact of Long-term Use of Aspirin and the Risk for Cancer.JAMA oncology · 2016Pooled it
- Aspirin might reduce the incidence of pancreatic cancer: A meta-analysis of observational studies.Scientific reports · 2015Pooled it
- Cyclooxygenase inhibitors use is associated with reduced risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma in patients with Barrett's esophagus: a meta-analysis.British journal of cancer · 2014Pooled it
- The association between physical activity and gastroesophageal cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of epidemiology · 2014Pooled it
- Meta-analysis on the association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and ovarian cancer.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2013Pooled it
- Frequency-risk and duration-risk relationships between aspirin use and gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2013Pooled it
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use reduces risk of adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction in a pooled analysis.Gastroenterology · 2012Pooled it
- Aspirin use and the risk of gastric cancer: a meta-analysis.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2010Pooled it
- Neoadjuvant irinotecan, cisplatin, and concurrent radiation therapy with celecoxib for patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer.BMC cancer · 2016Trial
- Urinary prostaglandin E2 metabolite and gastric cancer risk in the Shanghai women's health study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2009Trial
- Chemoradiotherapy Is Associated With Improved Overall Survival in Intestinal-Type Gastric Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis.World journal of oncology · 2026Article
- Does Administration of Low-Dose Aspirin Enhance the Efficacy of Psychotropic Drugs in Patients with Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Schizoaffective Disorder?Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Inflammation in cancer: therapeutic opportunities from new insights.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- Incidence of non-cardia gastric cancer among commercially-insured individuals aged 18-64 with chronic atrophic gastritis.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Use of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may reduce the risk of gastric or oesophageal adenocarcinomas. We examined the association between self-reported use of aspirin or non-aspirin NSAIDs in the earlier 12 months and gastric non-cardia (N=182), gastric cardia (N=178), and oesophageal adenocarcinomas (N=228) in a prospective cohort (N=311 115) followed for 7 years. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) come from Cox models adjusted for potential confounders. Use of any aspirin (HR, 95% CI: 0.64, 0.47-0.86) or other NSAIDs (0.68, 0.51-0.92) was associated with a significantly lower risk of gastric non-cardia adenocarcinoma. Neither aspirin (0.86, 0.61-1.20) nor other NSAIDs (0.91, 0.67-1.22) had a significant association with gastric cardia cancer. We found no significant association between using aspirin (1.00, 0.73-1.37) or other NSAIDs (0.90, 69-1.17) and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. We also performed a meta-analysis of the association between the use of NSAIDs and risk of gastric and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. In this analysis, aspirin use was inversely associated with both gastric and oesophageal adenocarcinomas, with summary odds ratios (95% CI) for non-cardia, cardia, and oesophageal adenocarcinomas of 0.64 (0.52-0.80), 0.82 (0.65-1.04), and 0.64 (0.52-0.79), respectively. The corresponding numbers for other NSAIDs were 0.68 (0.57-0.81), 0.80 (0.67-0.95), and 0.65 (0.50-0.85), respectively.
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