Men should talk to doctors about drug to prevent prostate cancer
February 25th, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer preventionNew U.S. guidelines recommend that healthy men who are regularly screened for prostate cancer and show no symptoms should talk to their doctors about taking a hormone-inhibiting drug to prevent the disease.
The new guidelines from cancer specialists and urologists don’t recommend men definitely take the drug, sold generically as finasteride and by Merck & Co. under the brand Proscar. Rather, it advises men to discuss with their doctors the benefits and the risks of the treatment, according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.