Thursday, August 15, 2013

Drug safely cuts prostate cancer risk, study finds

FILE - Tables of the drug finasteride are displayed outside of a news conference given by the National Cancer Institute in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2003. Long-term results from a major federal study released Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 show the drug cut prostate cancer risk by 30 percent without raising the risk of dying of an aggressive form of the disease as earlier results hinted it might. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Long-term results from a major federal study ease worries about the safety of a hormone-blocking drug that can lower a man's chances of developing prostate cancer.








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/drug-safely-cuts-prostate-cancer-risk-study-finds-211902083.html
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