A Wisconsin University specialist claim that steroids are not so harmful, as many persons believe

The professor of Wisconsin’s University Norm Fost claims about certain common misconceptions linked with anabolic steroids. However several specialists note about severe and even fatal unwanted consequences of anabolic steroids, the physician Fost denies these statements, claiming that they lack any scientific basis.
But statements of this expert are not so often quoted by media as statements about severe unwanted effects of steroids. So, the message of Norm Fost that steroids aren’t so harmful, as it is believed, is noticed once for every 500-time statement that steroids represent a real evil.
Moreover, editors usually mislead readers, writing the quotes of this physician incorrectly. 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 clamed that steroids were not harmful at all. It is obvious that these drugs may lead to various negative results. Norm doesn’t deny probability of appearing side reactions. Actually, this doctor says some other things. This physician notices that potential risks of steroids are significantly exaggerated. This doctor denies the statement that steroids cause the rare type of brain cancer. According to certain sources, this led to the death of Lyle Alzado, a player of the NFL. Norm Fost confirms that there is no any link between the death of this player and steroids.
Alzado blamed his prolonged steroid abuse for the primary brain lymphoma which finally caused his death. Assertion of this player was the only evidence which indicated about the link between his usage of steroids and the brain cancer.
But a question appears here. Why did Lyle Alzado make public his steroid use, blaming anabolic steroids for his illness? Couldn’t you find this fact strange?
In fact, it was said that AIDS had suppressed his immune system and promoted destructing his body by the primary brain lymphoma.
A pathologist noticed that Alzado had had T-cell lymphoma that was linked with AIDS. According to Dr. Thomas DeLoughery, Alzado was afraid that the public would know that he died from AIDS because of the cancer.
Pathologists at OHSU reported that Lyle Alzado had had B-cell lymphoma which was not linked with HIV or AIDS.
The physician DeLoughery explained the situation. He noticed that T-cells of this person were inflamed but the malignant cells were B-cells.
While specialists disputed about AIDS and the type of cancer that Lyle Alzado had, nobody of them claimed about links between his brain lymphoma and administration of steroids.