Baldness Med to Beat Cancer? Eight Drug Alter-Egos

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Would you take a baldness drug to protect against prostate cancer? Or Viagra to help avoid an amputation?
The possible use of finasteride -- a drug associated with hair loss treatment -- to help prevent prostate cancer is just one example of how a well-known drug may have a surprising alternative use.
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While most people think of medicines as single-role actors, there are a growing number of drugs that hold the potential for dual uses. This so-called "off-label" use of medicines accounts for about one-fifth of all prescriptions, according to a study released last April in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Many such applications come with their fair share of controversy.
In the aforementioned example of the hair-loss drug finasteride being recommended by some medical organizations as a preventative measure against prostate cancer, many doctors say that such a use is inefficient and ill-advised

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