Dexamethasone for children and young people
Published: Aug 2022
Next review: Aug 2025
This guide gives information on the use of dexamethasone in children and young people with cancer. It also offers help to parents in managing the behaviour of children with cancer, requiring who need regular steroids.
Dexamethasone is a steroid medicine used to treat many different conditions. It can be used:
- to help treat acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and lymphoma
- to help reduce swelling on the brain for patients with brain tumours
- as an anti-sickness medicine
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How this resource was made
This factsheet was reviewed by Ghazala Javid, Senior Paediatric Oncology & Haematology Pharmacist, University Hospitals of Leicester and the Neonatal & Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG) Paediatric Oncology Pharmacy Steering Committee on behalf of the CCLG Information Advisory Group, comprising parents, survivors and multiprofessional experts in the field of children’s cancer.
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