Steroids

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com The magnitude of the risk cannot be determined from currently available data, because the number of patients receiving androgens is unknown. The above sentence is the conclusion of the article. In the abstract it sites six patients. It doesn't say how many were even looked at during the study. From the abstract, the conclusion seems very risky to me. for all we know there could have been thousands of people. Do you know from what study this abstract was taken? I don't think you read this very carefully. The abstract is from an article published in the American Journal of Hematology in Nov. 2004. It is a review article, not a trial or study. The authors reviewed the medical literature for all case of hepatic tumors reported with androgen use. They identified 133 patients (6 of whom received the drugs by injection) but correctly state that the magnitude of the risk is unknown since we don't know the denominator (the total number of patients administered anabolic steroids). Keep in mind that these are just the cases that are actually reported in the literature. There is no obligation to report cases. You can click on related articles to view 100 other references. You can also request the full text of the article. I don't disagree with the authors' conclusion that "all patients on anabolic androgenic steroids are at risk of liver tumors." The italics are mine. And I don't think you will see a study of these drugs in healthy volunteers.

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com The magnitude of the risk cannot be determined from currently available data, because the number of patients receiving androgens is unknown. The above sentence is the conclusion of the article. In the abstract it sites six patients. It doesn't say how many were even looked at during the study. From the abstract, the conclusion seems very risky to me. for all we know there could have been thousands of people. Do you know from what study this abstract was taken? I don't think you read this very carefully. The abstract is from an article published in the American Journal of Hematology in Nov. 2004. It is a review article, not a trial or study. The authors reviewed the medical literature for all case of hepatic tumors reported with androgen use. They identified 133 patients (6 of whom received the drugs by injection) but correctly state that the magnitude of the risk is unknown since we don't know the denominator (the total number of patients administered anabolic steroids). Keep in mind that these are just the cases that are actually reported in the literature. There is no obligation to report cases. You can click on related articles to view 100 other references. You can also request the full text of the article. I don't disagree with the authors' conclusion that "all patients on anabolic androgenic steroids are at risk of liver tumors." The italics are mine. And I don't think you will see a study of these drugs in healthy volunteers.