Has GSK Abandoned Plans to Market Avodart for Hair Loss?
Doctor Rassman/Pak
I recently contacted Glaxosmithkline regarding avodart and hair loss, and this is what they said.
“Thank you for contacting GlaxoSmithKline about AVODART® (dutasteride).
GSK will not be pursuing further studies on the use of dutasteride for AGA (alopecia – male pattern hair loss). This decision is based on market research analyses and not for any safety or efficacy reasons.
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what does it mean that they won’t pursue further studies because of market research analysis?
Some doctors in the know have told me for some time that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) had no real intention to get into the hair business with Avodart, but their recent study may have reflected their playing the options for the future. According to the ClinicalTrials.gov site, GSK is still recruiting participants in a study of Korean patients to be concluded in July 2013… so I really don’t know what they’re doing.
As I am not an insider, I really can only speculate like everyone else.
The reason Avodart was not pursued for hair loss is because Avodart although is better then Propecia, thousands of men have commented so even my dermatologist, it’s not a breakthrough medicine and similar to Propecia just better so they believed it wouldn’t make much money. Propecia wasn’t a big seller as well. According to side effects, Propecia may have less then 2% chance of side effects, young men who take Avodart it will be the same or maybe 1% higher! Only downside is if side effects do occur with Avodart they will last much longer!
From my reasearch, if old men take it for prostate and most have no problem, Avodart can’t be dangerous or bad at all!
Also, when they did studies from avodart, they noticed it only worked in the crown area and not in the temple or frontal region, and it didn’t grow that much hair versus propecia. For example, if propecia grew lets say 30 hairs, avodart would grow 34 hairs. Also, the side effects far out weigh the positives, which is dangerous in young men.
Also, old men usually have prostate problems or erectile dysfunction, so I don’t think you can attribute that to taking avodart. That is why most old men who take avodart don’t have problems because they already had problems in the first place. In a younger man, now that is a different story.
Avodart may not be much better at regrowing hair but from reading what guys said it’s definitely better at stopping hair loss and thickening. As for the side effects, men in clinical trial had no erectile dysfunction or loss of libido prior to taking Avodart. If they would the trials wouldn’t work right unless they lied. Young men who take Avodart vast majority have no problems