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  1. And i wasn’t talking about TREATING prostate cancer with finasteride, the Medical community knows that doesn’t help. My main points were in regards to PREVENTION. as a side, very happy to hear your dad had a successful recovery
  2. Uhhhh did u read the explanation by the urologist? He goes into detail in regards to that finding and how it might cause a bit of confusion. Finasteride did not CAUSE onset of higher grade prostate cancer it simply was harder to detect bc of the method of action of finasteride: So how do you explain the increased risk of high-grade disease reported in 2003? There are two mechanisms by which we believe finasteride enhances the detection of high-grade cancer on prostate biopsy. First, finasteride is known to decrease the size of the prostate gland by about 25%. When you biopsy a smaller gland, you are more likely to sample an area of cancer—or high-grade cancer—with your biopsy needle, compared to doing the same biopsy in a larger gland. Second, as we showed in another analysis of the PCPT, finasteride improves the sensitivity of the PSA test for the detection of overall and high-grade prostate cancer. Because the decision to perform prostate biopsies during the study was based on PSA levels, this may have contributed to increased detection of prostate cancer, in general, and high-grade prostate cancer, in particular, among men receiving finasteride. Due to the effects of this drug on gland size and PSA performance, it seems quite likely that the PCPT not only overestimated the harm of finasteride in terms of the observed increase in high-grade cancer, but may have underestimated the benefit of finasteride in terms of the amount of reduction in prostate cancer risk.
  3. I just linked this earlier. If testosterone is the main cause of prostate cancer why did finasteride prevent it in over 25% of men in this huge study? https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2019/prostate-cancer-prevention-finasteride-parnes
  4. Not sure where you got your info from but finasteride helped prevent prostate cancer in over 25% of men over 55 who were in it over 7 years. That’s significant. the doctor provides a very good explanation in terms of why higher grade prostate cancer was detected. It likely wasn’t finasteride that caused it directly. Take a read: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2019/prostate-cancer-prevention-finasteride-parnes
  5. The “spike” in testosterone by 5ar are within normal ranges for males. It’s roughly a 10-15% increase, not anything supraphysiological like when taking ped’s. And it’s solely a result of the testosterone left over that isn’t being 5 alpha reduced.
  6. VERY good post and one that @Portugal25needs to review. @Portugal25since you personally know at least one person who had an aborted surgery why was the question never raised in terms of why microscopic evaluation is not enough to spot dupa?
  7. Obviously. But you’re backing up his decision to abort surgeries like it was the right/ethical thing to do when there’s several unanswered questions
  8. Finally someone with some sense! I like how @elduterino throws 95 and 99% statistics like he’s some expert on side effects on a drug that’s only sold on the black market. @elduterino, how many patients were in both of these studies you have so much confidence in? not surprised all of this is coming from someone that used to openly recommend topical flutamide gel to many people (even after the company MAKING IT decided to discontinue it after fear of side effects in users)
  9. @Portugal25you seem to ignore this question but why does pekiner abort dupa surgeries in the first place? You consider dr Ferreira and Lorenzo authorities in regards to dupa but they evaluate patients microscopically before even heading to the operating room. Why can pekiner not catch this with microscopic evaluation? He has to start surgery and go 100+ grafts deep then diagnose the patient with dupa. Makes absolutely no sense
  10. Melvin, there was already a response. The op of that thread said diep punched hairs but didn’t extract them, which makes absolutely no sense. Why would he punch out ah extra 600-700 grafts and just leave them there?
  11. OP, I’m gonna put this bluntly. If you get surgery with that hairline, you’re likely just gonna get rekt. Granted, I can’t see your full face to see how your hairline sits with everything facial wise but your hairline looks fine and your temple points strong. If girls are making comments that frequently, it might be the choice of hairstyle that’s accentuating you’re forehead. Just a thought
  12. Proven supplements? Care to share the studies where these are “proven?” There are anecdotes of msm and biotin growing hair faster but what does chondroitin do for hair?
  13. Wtf you’re brushing off hpta suppression Bc it’s not a “sexual side effect?” Is this real life?
  14. See a dermatologist or at least post pictures of your scalp condition. If it’s red and flaking then there might be an underlying issue. Itching is usually just one of several symptoms that accompany one another
  15. You also have to remember senile alopecia is also something that affects people even without mpb. Hair just thins out over time. I think joe is in his 50s now and has an acceptable head of hair for that age
  16. Congrats Craig. Great results. Thanks for documenting your journey for us all
  17. I’m not sure where in my post I mentioned a diffuse thinning Norwood 7? My point still stands however: finasteride in such individuals could be a useful tool for donor preservation
  18. I don’t understand your argument Melvin. Your car comparison doesn’t make sense either. In younger nw 7s, they are likely to have donor thinning which will affect their transplant result as well as possibly lead to a thinner looking donor with less viable grafts. Joe Tillman still takes finasteride as a nw6-7 as a way to preserve his donor and in turn recipient. It’s important for nw6-7s to prevent their lateral humps from dropping.now if you’re 60 and nw 7, it probably doesn’t matter much. instead of your car bra example a better one would be a car that is experiencing rust/oxidation. The entire body can be rusted and if something is not done to prevent the spread, it can oxidize the frame as well which will lead to a total loss. im not a medical professional and these r all my opinion
  19. Go with your gut. 1000 dollars is nothing compared to a lifetime of possible regret and “what if’s.”
  20. R u joking again? Just do a basic search. There’s several cases that have been aborted including a Chinese patient this past year
  21. R u joking? Do u know how devastating it would be to prepare for surgery, fly out there, all the while the doctor tells you you’re a good candidate thru email. Then while he’s extracting roughly TWO HUNDRED grafts, he tells you that he will have to abort the surgery Bc your grafts are Miniaturized. Ask @duchaine how he felt about his aborted surgery. Luckily he used his time in Turkey wisely and went to the clinic that pekiner trained at and they evaluated him and said everything was ok and even took out a few test grafts to examine. His results look excellent now. also doesn’t Help that he had a rep on here that was telling the moderators to remove threads with bad results. Now you tell me if all of this is ok
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