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• Title:Do no harm : how a magic bullet for prostate cancer became a medical quandary / Stewart Justman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Justman, Stewart.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WJ762 .J96 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Prostate--Cancer--Chemoprevention--United States.
  Prostate--Diseases--Chemoprevention--United States.
  Finasteride--Therapeutic use--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Finasteride--adverse effects--United States.
  Prostatic Neoplasms--prevention & control--United States.
  Clinical Trials as Topic--United States.
  Finasteride--therapeutic use--United States.
  
• Description:xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:Examines the medical controversy surrounding the use and potential benefits of finasteride, a steroid drug shown to drastically cut incidents of prostate cancer among low risk men, as well as cause more aggressive cancers in a small subgroup of patients.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781566636278 (cloth : alk. paper)
  1566636272 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Medical Maze: The Finasteride Question
  2. Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial
  3. Sister Drugs: Finasteride and Tamoxifen
  4. Specific Harms and General Benefits
  5. Calculation of Harm
  6. Medical Knowledge and Medical Ignorance
  7. Prevention Gone Too Far
  8. Breakthrough: "The Present Is Obsolete"
  9. "I Will Abstain from Harming Any Man"
  10. "Do No Harm?"
  11. Finasteride Story: What Did Not Happen
  Afterword: An Interview with My Urologist.