Aspirin and other NSAIDs as chemoprevention agents in melanoma
Cet article passe en revue les études concernant l'utilisation et les mécanismes d'action de l'aspirine ou d'autres anti-inflammatoires non stéroïdiens dans la chimioprévention du mélanome
Melanoma incidence is increasing and, despite recent therapeutic advances, the prognosis for patients with metastatic disease remains poor. Thus early detection and chemoprevention are promising strategies for improving patient outcomes. Aspirin (ASA) and other non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have demonstrated chemoprotective activity in several other cancers, and have been proposed as chemopreventive agents for melanoma. Throughout the last decade, however, a number of case-control, prospective, and interventional studies of NSAIDs and melanoma risk have yielded conflicting results. These inconsistent findings have led to uncertainty about the clinical utility of NSAIDs for melanoma chemoprevention. This minireview highlights current knowledge of NSAID mechanisms of action and rationale for use in melanoma, provides a comparative review of outcomes and limitations of prior studies, and discusses the future challenges in demonstrating that these drugs are effective agents for mitigating melanoma risk.