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It will be free for Brits but cost Americans $150,000, and it is not covered by Kaiser.

Original post above was nearly ten years ago, so the anti-cancer effect of aspirin is hardly news:

https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/us-health-cancer-aspirin-idUSKCN0R31TQ20150903/

Giving cheap aspirin to cancer patients may turbo-charge the effectiveness of expensive new medicines that help their immune systems fight tumors, experiments on mice suggest. ...

First synthesized by a chemist at Bayer more than a century ago, the medicine is already used to prevent heart attacks and has previously been reported to reduce the risk of bowel and other cancers.

So it's not really news, but maybe understanding the mechanism of action is actually news:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7

These findings reveal a novel immunosuppressive pathway that limits T cell immunity to cancer metastasis, providing mechanistic insights into the anti-metastatic activity of aspirin and paving the way for more effective anti-metastatic immunotherapies.

tovarichpeter says

It will be free for Brits but cost Americans $150,000, and it is not covered by Kaiser.

The guy behind Factory records was allowed to die in his 40s or 50s because the NHS didn't want to spend 80k pounds on his treatment, and told him if he sought treatment abroad he'd never be eligible for any NHS services again. Keep in mind he probably paid at least a million pounds in personal tax in his lifetime.

New study regarding low dose Aspirin big pharma doesnt wan't you to know:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7