Head of UCSF Sports Medicine Center Comments on Floyd Landis

Marc Safran, MD, who heads the Sports Medicine Center at the University of California, San Francisco, spoke with KPIX-TV/CBS 5 HealthWatch reporter Kim Mulvihill, MD, about cyclist Floyd Landis's comments to Sports Illustrated in the wake of an abnormal testosterone to epitestosterone level reported earlier this week. Landis has denied taking synthetic testosterone, and suggests that cortisone shots and thyroid hormones could have affected his drug test. While noting that judgment on Landis should be withheld, Safran told CBS 5, "I don't really think an intra-articular injection of a corticosteroid would have much of an effect on testosterone levels. I wouldn't expect it to do so." Links: Testosterone Doping in Cycling
CBS 5, July 27, 2006