Drug lowers prostate cancer risk

Lowering prostate cancer risk: A new study finds that dutasteride significantly reduces the chances that men at high risk of prostate cancer will be diagnosed with the kinds of tumors that are most often treated excessively: those that fall in the mid-range of aggressiveness. These tumors account for the majority of all prostate cancers and grow unpredictably. This uncertainty leads many men to opt for surgery or radiation therapy - treatments that can lead to incontinence and impotence.

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• prostate
• Gerald L. Andriole
• dutasteride