>>>DR.
JAY HARNESS: Most oncologists use steroids
for a couple of reasons – number one is
an anti-nausea drug, generally complimenting
other anti-nausea drugs that are also given
with a chemotherapy, and also to prevent allergic
reactions to a number of the large molecule
chemotherapy drugs such as the taxanes, like
Taxol and Taxotere.
In general, we would give steroids for a couple
of days around the time of the chemotherapy
but people would not be on steroids long-term,
so I am not aware of any evidence that that
amount of steroids would increase your risk
of developing diabetes in the long run.
What we do worry about is women who are already
diabetic in the steroids over a couple of
days raising their blood sugar.
So in such patients we have them monitor their
blood-sugar quite closely and they may need
extra insulin or other medication to control
that, but patients who are not diabetic are
not at risk of developing diabetes with that
amount of steroids.
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