The risks of tapering steroids in a patient on a dose of 10 mg per day for 1 year should be small if the steroids are tapered gradually. At our clinic, we would initially drop to prednisone 7.5 mg per ...

Impact of Travel Time on Health Care Costs and Resource Use by Phase of Care for Older Patients With Cancer To evaluate the impact of baseline corticosteroids on ICI efficacy in NSCLC, we compared ...

Prednisone is a generic drug prescribed for various conditions that involve inflammation. It’s a corticosteroid drug, also called a steroid. Prednisone is a generic prescription drug. It comes as an ...

Glucocorticoids are the mainstay of treatment for patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and often produce substantial clinical improvements, but treatment can be complicated by relapse, adverse ...

The discovery and introduction of corticosteroid therapy by Philip Hench in the late 1940s and early 1950s was a seminal advance in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid ...

Researchers have retrospectively analyzed data from nearly 60 patients with ocular myasthenia gravis (MG) not adequately responding to oral prednisone, finding that both intravenous (IV) ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 62-year-old male in generally good physical and mental health. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 21. I had bowel resection surgery, but have no debilitating symptoms ...

July 24, 2002 -- Prasterone (dehydroepiandrosterone [DHEA]), 200 mg daily, allowed reduced dosing of prednisone for women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a double-blind, placebo-controlled ...

Prednisone and other corticosteroids can provide palliation and tumor responses in patients with prostate cancer. The combination of docetaxel and prednisone was the first treatment shown to prolong ...

A prednisone taper gradually reduces your corticosteroid dose over days, weeks, or months to prevent prednisone withdrawal.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Several corticosteroid (CS) agents and numerous pharmaceutical products are available, and they have important ...

PURPOSE: Time to progression (TTP), overall survival, and quality of life (QL) were compared in patients with hormone-resistant prostate cancer (HRPC) treated with prednisone (5 mg orally, four times ...