Even medical professionals can fall into the pit of being a prostate cancer patient. You may see them in mens scrubs, looking healthy enough, but could be suffering from the same health fatal problem plaguing men. These people in mens scrubs and the ordinary people alike, gets hope from the new research findings showing the combination of Viagra and anti-cancer drug Doxorubicin can effectively treat prostate cancer.
The research by the researchers of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center and published in the journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say, the drug combo reduce size of tumors in lab mice and alleviate heart damage at the same time.
Doxorubicin is a standard anti-cancer drug used for patients under chemotherapy. But one of its side effects is high risk of irreversible heart damage, which may surface several years after treatment is stopped. There has to be a drug that should protect patients from short-term and long-term heart damage resulting from intake of Doxorubicin without diminishing its effectiveness, and the excellent candidate is the blue pill generically named sildenafil, the Viagra.
