Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on September 11, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(18):1353; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm173
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Finasteride Unlikely to Induce High Grade Prostate Cancers
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An increase in high-grade prostate cancer among men taking the drug finasteride is likely caused by an increased detection of cancers, and not by the development of more high-grade cancers, according to two studies published online September 11 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) was the first long-term randomized trial of a possible drug to prevent prostate cancer. The trial showed a nearly 25 percent reduction in prostate cancer incidence among men who
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