Baldness drug may aid prostate cancer
Scientists have revealed that a drug used to treat baldness may aid men with prostate cancer.
Researchers in the US said healthy men over the age of 55 should take the finasteride drug to help prevent the disease.
The recommendations came from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Urological Association after they found the risk of the prostate cancer dropped by 25 per cent when the drug was administered, potentially reducing claims on cancer insurance.
Dr Barnett Kramer, a disease prevention specialist at the National Institutes of Health and co-chair of the panel which made the recommendations, said the drug does have side effects, such as sexual impotence and reduce sexual desire.
However, he adds: "I think it's a legitimate intervention, just like tamoxifen has been proven to decrease the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk of breast cancer."
Recent research has also found men who are infertile are three times more likely to develop testicular cancer than fertile men. 
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