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Help please! could chemotherapy cause your sugar to elevate?
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Not usually: Chemotherapy drugs typically do not affect blood sugar. But there are medicines called steroids, sometimes used for treating cancer , which do increase blood sugar. They go by names like Prednisone or dexamethasone.
Answered 6/30/2014
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