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Article: Proscar aids enlarged prostates. (finasteride)
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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Give a man long enough to live, and chances are good (more than 80 percent if you're age 80 or older, in fact) he will have difficulty urinating. Even at age 40, 23 percent of men experience symptoms of hesitancy, reduced urinary flow, frequency, urgency, or awakening at night to urinate.
Often, the cause is benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy), a condition in which the number of cells increases in one of the prostate gland's regions. The resultant enlarged prostate blocks bladder flow to varying degrees, thus causing difficulty in urination.
Researchers aren't certain what causes this prostatic cell ...