ED drugs linked to melanoma (fatal skin cancer)

[Delta4Embassy]

Viagra may increase melanoma risk study finds - CBS News

Erectile dysfunction drugs linked to skin cancer Fox News

Erectile dysfunction drugs and skin cancer should you worry - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publications


Told ya. Just take an aspirin, does the same thing without the side effects.

 

[Malamute]

I wonder how it does that. Not that I doubt it --- all drugs have some bad side effects.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Asprin thins the blood thereby allowing more easy flowing to desired parts of the body like the penis.

ED drugs like Viagra increases blood flow too but with tons of side effects.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd likes it when his g/f rubs sunscreen on him...

New treatments can stop melanoma: researchers
Tue, Sep 12, 2017 - Researchers said a combination of new treatments can stop the world’s deadliest form of skin cancer — melanoma — in its tracks and halt its spread to other organs.

Results from two international drug trials conducted by the Sydney-based Melanoma Institute Australia have proved successful in preventing the disease spreading in stage three patients whose tumors had been surgically removed. Until now, these patients were at a high risk (40 to 70 percent) of the disease becoming advanced and fatal. “Results from these clinical trials suggest we can stop the disease in its tracks — effectively preventing it from spreading and saving lives,” the institute’s medical director Georgina Long said in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday. “Our ultimate goal of making melanoma a chronic rather than a terminal illness is now so much closer to being achieved.”

One in every three cancers diagnosed is a skin cancer, according to the WHO, with Australia having among the highest incidences of melanoma in the world. One Australian dies from it every five hours. While 90 percent of people can be cured by having the primary cancer removed through surgery, it spreads in the other 10 percent because it is detected too late. “These results will change the way we treat melanoma patients as well as their quality of life,” Long added. “Until now, Stage III melanoma patients who have had their tumors surgically removed have simply had to play the waiting game, to see if their melanoma would metastasize or spread.” “Living with such fear severely affected them and their loved ones,” she said.

People apply sunscreen at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec. 25 last year.​

The researchers conducted two 12-month trials, one immunotherapy-based and the other with targeted therapies. Both proved successful in preventing the disease spreading. In one of them, targeted therapies (dabrafenib and trametinib) blocked the action of a particular gene, BRAF, which is a driver for melanoma. It not only stopped stage three melanoma from recurring in those with tumors removed, but increased overall survival, the research showed.

The other trial treated patients with the immunotherapy nivolumab or ipilimumab — designed to reboot the immune system to attack melanoma cells. Results showed nivolumab decreased the chance of relapse. “These clinical trials show we now have ammunition to prevent melanoma spreading and progressing, which until now was a critical area of disease behavior where we had no control,” Long said.

New treatments can stop melanoma: researchers - Taipei Times