ALL drug prescriptions are based on individual needs and you mother is under the care of the best physicians already.

I’m sorry, but what did you find “otherwise”? *blur*

For your case, again… all therapy is individualised by your family physician. However, all I can say is aspirin still remains as effective pain-killers if not used for other indications (reasons).

I’m a first time visitor to your site. Was introduced by my friend Judy Leese to seek help from you pertaining to my mum’s illness. I see Dr Alan Teh is here. He, together with Dr S C Ng are attending to my mum and they both concur that for my mum’s condition, aspirin is a definite NO! I’m pretty surprised to find this otherwise!

However, for my case, would a combination of caffergot, aspirin & voltaren relief migraine attacks?

http://mottisland.com/blog/?p=8

The key will be to identify what sub-population (which group of people) will benefit from it….

… at the moment, perhaps those who have a personal history of cancer before or history of polyps, or strong family history of cancer or polyps will probably benefit from it.

… studies are going on to find out who else might benefit. Furthermore, perhaps some way of genetic testing might reveal who could benefit from it. These are still a long way off.

In the meantime, even though there are no official recommendations based on evidence, it’s probably reasonable to offer it to those who have a history of cancer before and those with polyps before.

Simple American, as Palmdoc has replied…. NO. Tylenol is similar to Panadol in the Malaysian market. It’s acetaminophen, we call it paracetamol here.

A rose by any other name works the same way. Or rather works not.

Capt Picard sure does.. works for Chelsea’s toothache.

And chelsea, it’s NOT penicillin.

Eve, is he a doctor? Sad to hear that he had colorectal cancer; is he ok?

Liling, change in lifestyle has yet to be proven… it’s known that obesity increases the risk. Also a high-fibre diet may protective. However, a nurses’ diet study didn’t show a protective effect from alteration of dietary habit to increased fibres.

I would still recommend a high-fibre diet and maintaining a healthy weight for maintenance of total health.

Probably, screening is the single most important factor to reduce deaths from colorectal cancer. This is based on Western studies. It might be extrapolated to Asian populations too.

Kits to detect blood in the motion is one such screening program. It should be used for all AVERAGE risk persons above the age of 50 years.

The other screening method is colonoscopy every ten years from the age of 50 years.

In fact, high-risk individuals should receive colonoscopic screening.