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Men who drink heavily may be raising their risk of developing prostate cancer, according to researchers. Their study found that the drug finasteride, which can help lower a man’s risk of the disease, appears unable to undo the damage of heavy drinking. No surprise there.
The clinical trial consisted of nearly 11,000 men and looked at whether finasteride lowered the risk of prostate cancer over a seven year period. 2,219 were diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 8,791 remained cancer-free throughout the study.
Men who drank four or more drinks per day, on at least five days of the week, were twice as likely as non-drinkers to develop aggressive prostate tumors. The risk was seen in both men who received finasteride and also those given a placebo.
As you might expect, when it came to less aggressive, slower-growing prostate tumors, finasteride cut non-drinkers’ and moderate drinkers’ risk by 43 percent. The drug did nothing, however, for heavier drinkers. So the moral here, like so many things in life, is moderation.
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