Viagra May Boost Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer, Study Finds

[KamaAina]

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/viagra-may-boost-risk-deadly-skin-cancer-study-finds-n73976

Men who use Viagra to get a boost in the bedroom could find that the little blue pill also increases the risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, a preliminary study finds.

Researchers found that men who took sildenafil, best known as Viagra, were about 84 percent more likely to develop melanoma than men who didn’t take the drug....

Viagra may increase the risk of melanoma because it affects the same genetic pathway that allows the skin cancer to become more invasive, Qureshi said. Those who took the drug weren’t at higher risk of other, less-dangerous skin cancers, such as basal cell or squamous cell cancers....

The average age of men in the study was 65 and about 6 percent had taken Viagra to treat erectile dysfunction. If men had ever used Viagra, the risk of developing melanoma was about double than for those who never used the drug. That finding held true even when the researchers adjusted for a family history of skin cancer, ultraviolet light exposure in the states where the men lived, other kinds of cancer and major illnesses and other factors.

6 percent?! If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to show you!

[derby378]

1. Levitra? Cialis? Vitamin E?

Just as long as nobody mentions Enzyte and "Smilin' Bob."

[KamaAina]

2. Here you go.

[NightWatcher]

3. So 6% need it and 94% use it for shits and giggles?

We've become too lazy to work for a good boner anymore. Forget honey, just take a pill.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. So what? At least...

you're getting laid before you die.