Case For Preventive Prostate Cancer Treatment Bolstered

Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 22:28 in Health & Medicine

For the last six years, doctors have faced a dilemma about whether to treat men at risk of prostate cancer with the drug finasteride. Now new research appears to show that the drug did not cause those more aggressive forms of prostate cancer but simply made them easier to diagnose. The findings suggest that doctors can be less cautious in use of finasteride.

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