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Viagra may increase risk of deadly skin cancer

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By ABC13
Monday, April 14, 2014

Researchers at Brown University say men who use Viagra are 84-percent more likely to develop melanoma. They claim the impotence drug may affect the same genetic mechanism that enables skin cancer to become more invasive.

But since the study is preliminary, researchers say it is too early to advise men to stop taking Viagra.

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