Prostate cancer patients can benefit from 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor treatment: a meta-analysis

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Although not a clinical trial, and subject to various weaknesses that the authors note, overall it seems to me a good argument for most of us to be taking dutasteride?

"Our study demonstrates that 5ARI treatment can benefit patients with local and low Gleason score (≤7) PCa, especially in delaying the disease progression. More studies with larger sample size and comprehensive study design are still needed to further verify our outcomes."

Tuo Deng,#1 Xueming Lin,#2 Xiaolu Duan,1 Zihao He,1 Zhijian Zhao,1 and Guohua Zengcorresponding author1

1Department of Urology and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

2Department of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

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And I have followed your writings and been taking dutasteride for as long. But until now I was not aware of any good evidence, outside of logical reasoning, that supported doing so. Thanks.

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What's Yiddish for "You are preaching to the choir"? I don't remember when I first started dutasteride, and lots of other stuff, but I think it was about ten years ago after listening to Dr. Snuffy.

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Can't we avoid sexual slurs j-o-h-n?

[j-o-h-n in reply to cigafred]

Sorry, You got it wrong, I meant a baby bird.....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 06/27/2020 4:24 PM DST