I fear you're asking the wrong person here - one of the GetBig historians/scientists will know this better than me... and my terminology/understanding is almost certainly off...
You probably know more of the terminology than I do, but that old post you quoted from Van Bilderass about Dennis Newman's GH use mentioned the MD article where Dennis was asked about it. I was army training in Kingston when I read that - so I am almost certain that it was a Spring 2003 issue of MD. I would say the 2003 "August" issue, which would have come out in June [Paul Dillett cover], since I returned home that year on June 20th, so it wasn't later than that.
In the interview, Newman was asked if he thought that GH use had anything to do with his leukemia, and he said either yes, or that he thinks it possibly/probably did. When asked if he used GH since, he said he had used it four times since, because he doesn't like being told what to do - or something in that tone. Basically that it's his life, YOLO, etc.
I remember Paul Dillett was accusing the IFBB of racism in that issue [yeah, with a 5-time and counting reigning Mr. Olympia champion at the time.
]. I remember that Dillett said that he was half Black and half White, so he couldn't be racist, and I was thinking "That makes sense." LMAO...oh well, I was a brainwashed 21-year-old who grew up being told that only White people can be racist, so I can forgive myself for thinking that.
I also recall that Newman guest-posed at the Mr. Olympia that year and was booed onstage because he was clearly still using steroids/PED's, despite having beaten leukemia. That may have been where those photos of Dennis Newman with numerous injuries was from, but I also recall he competed in an Ironman Contest post-leukemia, so it may have been from there.
I think in that same MD issue, Newman said that his wife divorced him when he got leukemia, and shrunk down to 160-lb. Talk about "'Til Death Do Us Part ".
