Doping

I applied to the US Anti doping agency (USADA) to get a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for hormone therapy which I am supposed to start soon. I don’t like to take any sort of medication (see Tylenol vs narcotics after surgery in an earlier post).

The oncologist and his team were surprised that this drug is on the prohibited list. They thought about it and said it does not affect women’s sport performances, but is used by men.

To support my TUE application the oncologist wrote a letter carefully explaining that hormone therapies are standard treatment recommendations by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), American Society of Oncology (ASCO), and other expert panel recommendations. He listed four FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approved medications for my treatment, all of which are on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA, https://www.wada-ama.org/) prohibited list. It was especially useful that he explained in the letter that these medications do not improve women's sport performances, but are banned due to men using these to make steroid effects, and even included a published article to underline this.

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) states that the TUE is the responsibility of the national anti-doping agencies, see IWF Master's TUE process. That means the USADA has to approve, and then the IWF hopefully accepts the approval/document.

Anything you take, check this website: Global Drug Reference Online