On: Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet

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I know next to nothing about medicine, but at least some cancers (can?) derive from human papillomavirus[0] infections.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus

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That's probably because papillomavirus inactivates two tumour suppressing proteins in order to allow the host cell to proliferate. Nothing to do with inflammation per se.