September 18 2009, 2:31 pm PT | Posted in: Drugs
New study showing heavy alcohol usage blocked effects of finasteride (half way down page): Prostate cancer and alcohol
The link has quick paragraphs about a variety of topics, but here’s the relevant info from the page (the bold emphasis added was mine) –
- “This study analyzed data on 10,920 men. In a seven-year span, prostate cancer was detected in 2,129 of them, including 564 men with high-grade tumors, which grow and spread quickly. Those who consumed, on average, four or more drinks a day (totaling roughly two ounces or more of pure alcohol) five days a week in the year before diagnosis were more than twice as likely to have developed high-grade prostate cancer as were those who did not drink. No link was found between prostate cancer and more-moderate drinking. Also, among men who had been randomly assigned to take finasteride (Proscar, Propecia) as part of other research to test the drug’s ability to prevent prostate cancer, heavy drinking blocked the effectiveness of the drug.“
This is interesting, but it doesn’t necessarily prove that heavy drinking blocks finasteride effectiveness. Heavy drinking (4+ drinks a day) in itself can cause higher grade cancer. It should go without saying, but heavy drinking is not good in any case. If there is indeed an association with finasteride not working when you drink heavily, I would say it is a good idea to limit your alcohol intake!
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Oh great. Dr. Rassman at it again with his helpless responses.
“If there is indeed an association with finasteride not working when you drink heavily, I would say it is a good idea to limit your alcohol intake!”
gee, really? thanks for your extremely helpful input. How about providing some research on the questions asked. Often times it seems that you have about as much knowledge as the very readers who look to you for information and assistance.
I don’t think the readers would prefer that I wait until I have time to fully research news like this more before posting. I wasn’t part of the research group and I wasn’t privy to any of this before I read the blurb in a link sent to me. What I said might’ve been obvious, but the point of the post was to get the information out there.
How about this — you go ahead and research it for me and write up a satisfactory response, so that I can send you a passive aggressive comment about how it wasn’t written to my liking and wasn’t much help at all.
As Proscar is 5 times stronger than Propecia, would it follow that even more moderate drinking could lower Propecia\’s effectiveness ?
Pete - you’re a moron. Dr. Rassman is providing this website for free. Maybe you should start paying him out of your own pocket so he can conduct the “research” you need.