The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
you're not causing the prostate to become cancerous and of course you know thank God people don't die of prostate cancer it's you know it's a very slow-moving thing obviously there's very good survivability if you should be diagnosed but the point is is that you're shrinking that good healthy tissue and then you're more likely to find something on the biopsy that more likely to be high-grade
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finasteride five milligrams is you know one of the more prominent treatments for BPH benign prostatic hypertrophy a large prostate put somebody on five milligrams a finasteride their regular prostate tissue shrinks and so that's likely what's happening also at at one milligram dose and so what happens if the normal prostate tissue is shrinking and you go to biopsy that tissue you may be more likely to find some high-grade cancer or cancerous material in there just because the normal tissue is less voluminous