Research suggests that aspirin could inhibit the development of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women. Authors of a new report discovered that HIV induces expression of the COX-2/prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) inflammatory pathway in cervical samples from Haitian women with HIV. The findings tie two known facts together: that HIV causes chronic inflammation and that PGE2, which is elevated during inflammation, is linked to cancer development. The fact that HIV ramps up production of PGE2 in...
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