PPIs, Aspirin and cancer, Radiotherapy and smoking
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
There are growing concerns about the widespread use of PPIs, the acid suppressing family of drugs used to treat indigestion and the most prescribed in the world. They are recommended to be used for weeks in typical cases of heartburn, but most people including Mark, take them for months or years. But one reason why PPIs are being used so widely is to protect the lining of the gut from aspirin and combining these two drugs may also have benefits against cancer. Mark hears preliminary findings on the so called chemo-protective effects of aspirin. And radiotherapy is a crucial part of modern cancer treatment so why does it get so little attention compared to drugs? Plus why radiation and smoking are particularly poor bedfellows.
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| 0:33.3 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:36.7 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:39.4 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:40.8 | Coming up in today's program, radiotherapy. |
| 0:43.8 | It's a crucial part of modern cancer treatment, |
| 0:46.5 | so why does it get so little attention |
| 0:48.6 | compared to other therapies like drugs? |
| 0:51.3 | And in justice, one of our listeners thinks inside health should address. So we do |
| 0:56.3 | by visiting the department where she works. Smoking, we all know it's detrimental to health, |
| 1:01.8 | but new research highlights just how important it is for patients undergoing radiotherapy |
| 1:06.6 | to kick their habit, radiation and tobacco, making particularly poor bedfellows. |
| 1:12.5 | And we've an update on the latest research into using daily low-dose aspirin |
| 1:16.8 | to protect against cancer, so-called chemo-prevention. |
| 1:20.7 | But first, growing concerns about the widespread use of PPI's, |
| 1:25.4 | the acid-suppressing family of drugs that includes ameprosol and lansoprosol |
| 1:29.6 | used to treat indigestion, and now among the most prescribed drugs in the world. Since their |
| 1:35.7 | introduction in the 80s, the number of people taking a PPI in the UK has soared from around |
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