Steroid use and brain cancer

The professor of Wisconsin’s University Norm Fost destroys several common misconceptions related to anabolic steroids. However certain experts note about serious and even fatal undesirable reactions of anabolic steroids, the doctor Fost denies these affirmations, claiming that they don’t have any scientific basis.
But affirmations of this doctor are not so frequently quoted by media as statements about dangerous adverse effects of steroids. Thus, the message of Norm Fost that steroids are not so dangerous, as it is believed, is noted once for every 500-time statement that steroids represent a real evil.
Moreover, editors usually mislead readers, writing the quotes of Norm Fost wrongly. For example, a headline of a radio talk sounds following: “UW-Madison doctor: steroids aren’t harmful at all”. The headline is wrong. It is misleading. Norm Fost has never stated that steroids were not harmful at all. It is obvious that these medicines can lead to different side results. Norm doesn’t deny risks of appearing unwanted reactions. In fact, this expert says some other things. This doctor notices that possible risks of steroids are essentially exaggerated. This physician denies the affirmation that steroids cause the rare form of brain cancer. According to some sources, this caused the death of Lyle Alzado, a player of the NFL. Norm Fost notices that there is no any connection between the death of this player and steroids.
Alzado blamed his prolonged steroid abuse for the primary brain lymphoma that finally led to his death. Assertion of this person was the only evidence that supported the link between his intake of steroids and the brain cancer.
But a question appears here. Why did Alzado make public his steroid use, blaming anabolic steroids for his diseases? Couldn’t you find this fact strange?
Actually, it was said that AIDS had suppressed his immune system and induced destroying his body by the primary brain lymphoma.
A pathologist noticed that Alzado had had T-cell lymphoma that was related to AIDS. According to Dr. Thomas DeLoughery, Alzado feared that the public would know that he died from AIDS because of the cancer.
Pathologists at OHSU claimed that this football player had had B-cell lymphoma which was not connected with HIV or AIDS.
The doctor DeLoughery explained the case. He noticed that T-cells of this person were inflamed but the malignant cells were B-cells.
While experts disputed about AIDS and the type of cancer which Alzado had, nobody of them confirmed about connection between his brain lymphoma and usage of steroids.