Harvard Medical Video: A pill to prevent prostate cancer -- not so fast

February 27, 2009 04:51 PM EST (Updated: March 02, 2009 11:46 AM EST)

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Finasteride reduces the risk of prostate cancer. But whether it really saves lives is the more important question. Dr. Howard LeWine challenges the current recommendations that healthy men 50 and over consider taking the drug.

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