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Originally Posted by mcan
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...
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OK-I just got the dirt from my fiance, who is a pathologist. Oral or injected, it doesn't matter-it all goes through the liver. Then she lost me with something about sinusoids and filtrators....
But anyway, check out this link, paragraph 2.
http://www.mdanderson.org/diseases/liver/