You might want to stop in at AnabolicFitness.com and read the consensus statements by vets and anabolic discussion board owners. They may help you decide if you're ready or not.
AS does not cause cancer or heart disease now or later in life. If it did all the bodybuilders of the 70's would be dropping like flies and they simply are not. If they were the government would be trotting out all the morbidity/mortality statistics, showing them to the media and using them to further their anti-steroid message. And keep in mind that 30 years ago they had crappy AS, (with all due respect to dbol let's face it the stuff is a 50 year old compound), and no anti-e's, no liver protection and no PCT whatsoever. When the government wanted to schedule steroids they held hearing to determine if they should. The FTC, FDA, Dept of Health and Human Services ALL testified AGAINST the scheduling of AS. But they did it anyways. When Washington wants to do something they do it even if their own agencies advise against it. So I am not at all surprised that the misinformation the government has spread over the last 14 years, and this year in particular, is showing up in posts on this board by people who don't know any better. I suggest you read the research first and make up your own mind. If you go to AnabolicFitness.com you should start in the Bjaarki Library with Shahidi's Review of the studies to that time about AS and it's sides.