A team of Chinese and Taiwanese scientists conducted a new research on cancer and found that NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) have the power to reduce tumor invasion and metastasis.

The research team includes researchers from China's National Sun Yat-Sen University and Taiwan's Kaohsiung Medical University. According to the researchers, this finding provides new brainstorms into the anti-cancer effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been used for the past few years to suppress inflammation and pain. The new research proved that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have the ability to increase anti-metastatic genes and tissue inhibitors in lung cancer cells of human being.

The result of the research points to the new strategy, which may introduced soon, for the treatment or prevention of cancer using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The research team was headed by Wen-Chun Hung, a scientist of National Sun Yat-Sen University.

The research team comprises former Sun Yat-Sen University doctoral student Mei-Ren Pan and two scientists from Kaohsiung Medical University, Hui-Chiu Chang & Lea-Yea Chuang. The research report was published on the April issue of the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine.