A daily low dose of aspirin will not prevent cancer in later life, and could even increase your risk of dying from the disease, landmark new research has found. But now, Australian researchers have dispelled these claims, suggesting that starting to take aspirin in old age to prevent cancer could have negative side-effects, and can even increase risk of developing the disease. Taking aspirin in old age to prevent cancer is not recommended, the experts say and could even increase your risk of dying from the diseaseResults showed that 8.5 years later, taking aspirin for just over four-and-a-half years had no impact on cancer risk. Interestingly, those who were taking aspirin every day and developed cancer were 15 per cent more likely to die from the disease than those prescribed placebo pills. The researchers concluded, with the exception of melanoma, taking aspirin daily does not help protect against cancer, and could increase the risk of death.