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Finasteride shown to prevent prostate cancer for up to 16 years

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Men who take the medication finasteride get a prostate cancer prevention benefit that can last 16 years—twice as long as previously recorded, according to SWOG clinical trial analysis published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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