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Wed 17 Sep 2008 1:25am
’s prostates as they grew older. That drug was finasteride (originally marketed in 1993 as Proscar for benign prostatic hyperplasia and later also as Propecia for treatment of male pattern baldness).
Anyway, in the early 1990s, Merck (the developers of finasteride) had another idea. If finasteride can shrink the size of a man’s prostate, and it is a very safe
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Posted
Mon 29 Sep 2008 4:46pm
that,
Finasteride significantly reduced prostate cancer risk regardless of the level of this risk, … this suggests that finasteride exerts both treatment and preventive effects. All men undergoing PSA screening should be informed of the potential for finasteride to reduce their risk of prostate cancer.
Finasteride clearly reduced the risk of prostate cancer
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Wed 07 Jul 2010 12:00am
For years, some clinicians have been telling their patients to use a 5α-reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs) like finasteride or dutasteride as a form of “bridge... assertions:
That administration of finasteride was associated with a reduction in the rate of increase of serum PSA in the off-treatment period of any given cycle within a sequence
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Posted
Wed 17 Sep 2008 1:25am
community, it is a fair question to ask whether there are any men who are appropriate candidates for finasteride therapy to prevent prostate cancer today.
Let’s look at the pros and the cons.
On the one hand, we know that long-term daily use of finasteride in men over 55 appears to increase risk for higher grades of prostate cancer in men who actually get
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Posted
Sun 28 Sep 2008 5:40pm
Today’s New York Times article (right on the front page) is going to “heat up” the finasteride debate. With the key editorialist (Peter Scardino, MD) changing his opinion, the PCPT trial results are now clear: finasteride does reduce risk for prostate cancer by 25-30 percent, and does not increase risk for aggressive disease. (For those who have
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Posted
Mon 03 Nov 2008 9:02pm
and progressing on to involve the back and top of the head. This type tends to be progressive.
Finasteride helps stop hair loss in about 60% of men, and minoxidil decreases hair loss... should follow up with people who are being treated with minoxidil or finasteride.
Anti Aging Treatments .blogspot.com
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Tue 09 Nov 2010 7:30am
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Having taken finasteride (Propecia) for a number of years, I can make a statement on it. First of all I would never tolerate it at the recommended dose of 1 mg a day... medications.
My advice for other men taking it is to be careful with the addition of pain meds while on the finasteride. Talk with your proscribing doctor before altering your dose
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Sat 25 Apr 2009 11:34pm
doses of one of the uroselective α-blockers alfuzocin or tamsulosin, plus the 5α-reductase inhibitors finasteride (5 milligrams) or dutasteride (0.5 milligrams).
The researchers found that patients in both groups had significant reductions in prostate volume after one year (24.5 percent for finasteride and 26.1 percent for dutasteride). After
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