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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Steroids for Cancer Patients?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.004150.13408@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Nov18.175613.1538@igor.tamri.com> <Bxz3nn.Ep3@queernet.org> <2165@hsdndev.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:41:50 GMT
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- In article <2165@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
- >[correction to the common confusion over "steroids"]
- >Although Lyle
- >Alzado apparently believed that anabolic steroids caused his brain
- >tumor, I don't know of any evidence suggesting such an association.
-
- His brain tumor was a lymphoma; this story may have been disinformation
- to deflect attention from HIV infection, although this is only a
- conjecture on my part. Perhaps injecting anabolic steroids using
- shared apparatus could "cause" a lymphoma by acting as a vector for
- HIV infection. It's a lot more likely than any primary role such drugs
- might have in producing such a cancer.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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