A wrong headline: “UW-Madison doctor: steroids aren’t harmful at all”

The professor of Wisconsin’s University Norm Fost destroys several common misconceptions related to anabolic steroids. Although certain experts proclaim about severe and even life-threatening undesirable results of anabolic steroids, Dr. Fost denies these statements, claiming that they don’t have any scientific basis.
But statements of this doctor are not so frequently quoted by media as statements about dangerous side consequences of steroids.  Thus, 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.
 Furthermore, editors usually create a wrong perception among 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 drugs can cause different undesirable effects. Norm doesn’t deny risks of appearing  side consequences. Actually, this specialist says some other things. This expert notes that potential risks of steroids are essentially exaggerated. This doctor denies the statement that steroids lead to the rare form of brain cancer. According to several sources, this led to the death of Lyle Alzado, a player of the NFL. Dr. Fost notes that there is no any link between the death of this player and steroids.
Alzado demonized his prolonged steroid abuse for the primary brain lymphoma which finally caused his death. Assertion of this person was the only evidence that indicated about the connection between his administration 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 diseases? Couldn’t you find this aspect strange?
Actually, it was said that AIDS had affected his immune system and promoted destructing his body by the primary brain lymphoma.
A pathologist said that Lyle Alzado had had T-cell lymphoma that was connected with AIDS. According to Dr. Thomas DeLoughery, Alzado was afraid that the public would proclaim 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 linked with HIV or AIDS.
The physician DeLoughery explained the situation. He said 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 Alzado had, nobody of them claimed about links between his brain lymphoma and usage of steroids.