A link to this article showed up in one of my prostate cancer newsletters that I receive. There’s a link to the original study report in the article, and it’s way over this layman’s head to make heads or tails of it in a brief read-through before my zapping session.

I didn’t dig deep enough to see if this applies equally to primary radiation therapy and salvage radiation therapy (because it’s not yet approved for use and too late for me).

A new study suggests that unwanted side effects of radiation treatments for prostate cancer could be reduced by the common steroid betamethasone.

Source: Common Steroid Could Improve Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Outcomes

 

This post originally appeared on Dan’s Journey Through Prostate Cancer on August 16, 2022. It is republished with permission.