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|Articles|March 9, 2011
- December 2010
- Volume 4
- Issue 12
Advisory Panel Discusses Expanded Indication for Avodart
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The FDA has released briefing documents noting that the 5-alpha reductase inhibitor increases the risk of high-risk prostate cancer.
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Prior to an upcoming advisory panel meeting to discuss whether GlaxoSmithKline’s Avodart (dutasteride) should receive an expanded indication as a chemopreventive for prostate cancer, the FDA has released briefing documents noting that the 5-alpha reductase inhibitor increases the risk of high-risk prostate cancer. Whatever the panel decides might affect a request from Merck to change the label on Proscar (finasteride) to reflect study findings that it reduces the rate of low-risk prostate cancer.
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