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Even though the National Cancer Institute confirmed that an inexpensive, generic drug called finasteride can prevent as many as 50,000 cases of prostate cancer each year, the drug is largely ignored.  What makes that even more amazing is that finasteride only costs about $2 a day.

The story, which appeared in the New York Times, goes on to say that much of the resources used to fight cancer are aimed at treatment rather than prevention even though there are several examples of drugs that are proven effective in preventing cancer in the first place.

Is this because people are in denial about getting cancer?  Or is “preventing” cancer just not part of our national health psyche?

Check out the four things that have proven effective in preventing cancer and seven things that do not.