Male Patients Developed Skin Cancer

435 Male Patients Developed Skin Cancer after Taking Viagra

Viagra pills will be carefully analyzed in the future to determine whether there is a link between them and skin cancer incidences.

 A new study has shown that approximately 435 male patients developed skin cancer after taking Viagra, so medical experts are now considering to change erectile dysfunction treatments in order to eliminate all possible risks. The research was carried out by studying the medical records of 20,000 male patients from Sweden.

Dr. Stacy Loeb from the Langone Medical Center at the University of New York City was inspired in the choice of its new medical research by the past findings stating that there could be a link between phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors and skin cancer incidences.

Past studies have revealed that around 14 men developed malignant melanoma after treating their erectile dysfunctions with well-known drugs, such as, Viagra and related compounds. As a consequence, Dr. Loeb has gathered a collection of 20,000 medical records of Sweden medical patients to study their evolution from 2006 to 2012.

He was thus, able to notice that there is a significant link between the patients who have been administered PDE5 inhibitors and skin cancer. More specifically, around 435 patients developed skin cancer, whereas 2,148 have had one or two incidences of malignant melanoma.

In spite of the findings, medical experts have further looked into the manner in which the drugs have been administered as they wanted to see whether Viagra can indeed pose additional health risks. In their opinion, the use of multiple prescriptions helps lower the risks of skin cancer, whereas the majority of the patients, who developed malignant melanoma used only one type of prescription.

Dr. Loeb and the rest of the scientists, who have taken part in the study have concluded that there is no actual link between Viagra use and skin cancer in male patients. Based on their recent findings, cancer cases are too insignificant to be accounted for by medical experts.

As a matter of fact, Loeb has suggested physicians to maintain the same medical treatment for patients with erectile dysfunctions until more data is collected. PDE5 inhibitors have had generally good results, so far, so there is currently no actual reason to completely eliminate them from medical cures.

Further studies will be carried out in the future to determine whether Viagra and similar drugs should be avoided on account of the skin cancer risks they cause.
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