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Originally Posted by kcfanintitanhell
This may be true, but then there was Lyle Alzado, who maintained right up until his death of a brain tumor, that the massive amounts of steroids he was putting into his body while trying to make a comeback in the NFL was directly responsible.
Also the guy from the original Longest Yard (I can't remember his name, but he was the inmate with the shaved head and tattoos) who died of liver cancer a few years back and blamed it on 25 years of pretty much continuous steroid use.
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Lyle: Dying man wants a reason. Sorry Lyle. Hundreds of thousands of people take steroids and YOU are the one with the brain tumor. Sounds about like the odds of getting a brain tumor if you're a plummer, or a banker...
Liver cancer: This could be steroid related if he took a lot of oral steroids. Look, anything you take in pill form has to go through your liver first, and not all of it is going to end up in your blood stream. Your liver eats up most of it (some studies say 90%). So, that forms free radicals and free radicals whether they come from food or steroids or inhaled paint thinner can make mutated cells and they can make a tumor. So...