TLDR Prostate cancer prevention now focuses on healthy diets and some medications, not vitamins.
Over the past decade, the approach to preventing prostate cancer shifted from relying on vitamins and micronutrients, which proved ineffective, to emphasizing lifestyle modifications such as balanced diets and reduced dairy consumption, particularly favoring Asian or Mediterranean diets. This marked a significant change in prevention strategies. Additionally, chemoprevention using 5α-reductase inhibitors like finasteride and dutasteride significantly reduced prostate cancer incidence, although their use in practice was controversial.
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December 2012 in “Canadian Urological Association Journal” 5ARIs like finasteride can help prevent prostate cancer and treat BPH, but guidelines should be updated to reflect this.
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October 2011 in “QJM” The drugs finasteride and dutasteride reduce low-grade prostate cancers but may double the risk of high-grade cancers.
March 2025 in “Scientific Reports” Higher doses of 5α-reductase inhibitors may lower mortality risk, but low doses increase it.
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January 2004 in “PubMed Central” 5α-reductase inhibitors like finasteride and dutasteride effectively treat BPH by reducing DHT levels.
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May 2012 in “Aktuelle Urologie” Chemoprevention, using drugs like finasteride and dutasteride, can help prevent prostate cancer.
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March 2004 in “Der Urologe” There is no strong evidence that chemopreventive agents effectively prevent prostate cancer.
