MASSIVEMONSTER said:
cyrex,
you said earlier that chances of a 26 year old having a cancerous tumor is 1 in a million. where did u get them facts?
I think it is healthy to question the effects that substance like IGF-1 may have in the long run. But I don't think you will find the answers on this board. You need to do internet searches on cancer and read about it. It actually is quite interesting and you will learn alot about the body.
I will try to make one point where I think many on this board miss the boat. While there is a difference between cancer causing and cancer promoting, cancer promoting does not just mean that you have cancer and that cancer promoting will speed it up. Cancer promoting substances can cause cancer to be initiated where they may not have been without the cancer promoting substance.
For example, obese people have a 30% higher rate of cancer. Being overweight does not cause DNA damage. So something is causing cancer to be promoted more frequently in obese people. Many scientist believe that there is a connection between IGF-1 , insulin and cancer.
Boards like this are good at communicating antedotal information. This works well for cause-effects that occur rapidly. But it does not work well for problems where decades may pass before the effect of something are seen.
This is the case for both heart disease and cancer. Both of which are debated when talking about AAS, GH and IGF-1.
If cancer were eradicated completely, the average lifespan would only go up 4-5 years. It would take a study with thousand of people over decades to be able to determine if cancer or heart disease were stastically higher in users using IGF-1 or AAS than normal population.
Most likely these studies will never be conducted so the only method that can be used to estimate the possible effects is to research as much as you can and draw your conclusions based on an educated guess.
I have done this and I believe that there is some evidence that suggests that IGF-1 can be a cancer promoter.