Prostate Drug Appears Safer Than Thought

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The authors of the 2003 study reached similar conclusions after they analyzed their own results, according to Catherine Tangen, statistical principal investigator for the first study. The findings of the new study "are consistent with everything we found," Tangen said in the news release.

Men should be given the opportunity to take finasteride if they and their doctors feel it's necessary, she added.

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The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about prostate cancer.

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-- Robert Preidt