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Prostate Cancer Breakthrough?

WCCO:

Scientists have discovered the first drug that promises to prevent prostate cancer, but deciding who should use it won't be easy: Sexual side effects aside, it may actually increase aggressive tumors in some men.

The drug is finasteride, already sold as a treatment for enlarged prostates under the brand name Proscar and, in a much lower dose, as Propecia for baldness.
Men who took Proscar daily for seven years cut their chances of getting prostate cancer by nearly 25 percent compared with men given a dummy pill, researchers reported Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.