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A major new university study points out the use of the Erectile Dysfunction drug Viagra® may be associated with a dramatically increased risk of developing melanoma, a potentially deadly cancer, often beginning as skin cancer. Viagra is manufactured by the New York City-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
These alarming new findings, reported online on April 7, 2014 by the prestigious Internal Medicine Journal of the American Medical Association , were based on a careful study of more than 25,000 American men conducted over nearly 10 years by researchers from leading Medical Schools, including Harvard, Brown and other leading universities and hospitals.
More than 76,000 total new melanoma cancer cases, and nearly 10,000 deaths from melanoma cancer, are projected to occur in the United States during 2014, according to the Federal Government .