Can a patient who is diabetic still get chemotherapy?
It doesn’t have a significant impact. Sometimes you give steroids like prednisone and Decadron to help with the side effects of chemotherapy particularly nausea or vomiting. Steroids will actually make your sugar go out of control. So if your diabetic and getting chemotherapy and part of the chemotherapy includes getting steroids, then you may have to alternate the medication for a diabetic patient. That’s not a permanent affect. It’s temporary while you are getting the drug.
