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Risk of lower gastrointestinal bleeding and colorectal neoplasms following initiation of low-dose aspirin: a Danish population-based cohort study.

Frederikke Schønfeldt TroelsenDóra Körmendiné FarkasRune ErichsenHenrik Toft Sorensen
Published in: BMJ open gastroenterology (2021)
These findings indicate that aspirin may contribute to reduce CRC risk by causing premalignant polyps to bleed, thereby expediting colonoscopy and polypectomy before CRC development.
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