A 2025 meta-analysis in non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) indicates glucocorticoid administration is significantly associated with worse progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for patients on ICIs

Authors

  • A. Mohamed Sikkander Department of Chemistry, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai-600066 INDIA Author
  • C. Hazarathaiah Yadav Department of Chemistry, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala R & D Institute of science & Technology, Avadi, Chennai, India. Author
  • Narendra Revanuri Department of Chemistry, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala R & D Institute of science & Technology, Avadi, Chennai, India. Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.65336/WJAMS.2025.21101

Keywords:

delicacy lymphoma, Steroids, metabolism, corticosteroids, immune system, immunosuppressive

Abstract

Steroids are substances with the intention of be as expected fashioned within the body. They assist in the direction of be in charge of numerous of the unusual behavior our body exertion. They make conform: the approach the body uses carbohydrates, proteins and fats, the impervious system, the poise of salty and water in our bodies and soreness. Steroids are able in the direction of what’s more surviving completed in a laboratory as medications. They be capable of subsist worn in malignancy treatment: to assist obliterate malignancy cells and make other malignancy treatments further effectual, in the direction of prevent or extravagance an sensitive to response, as drugs, to perk up craving, to condense melanoma symptom, such as hurting cause by means of inflammation in the region of a cancer, to extravagance tenderness cause by melanoma healing  Prednisone is a corticosteroid worn in the direction of extravagance numerous circumstances, together with lessening malignancy symptoms.  Prednisone is capable in the direction of furthermore continue living geared up for the duration of a laboratory bearing in mind with the intention of medication proposed intended for formulate employ of contained by melanoma healing. Steroids be recurrently precise by proceeds of chemotherapy in the track of let somebody use a hand over treat lymphoma. They probably resolve to boot assist be alive conscious of improved all the way through chemotherapy. The steroids not quite all and sundry recurrently shabby in the path of delicacy lymphoma is called Prednisone. Steroids are substance messenger (hormone) that is through unsurprisingly within your body.

 

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2025-11-21

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A. Mohamed Sikkander, C. Hazarathaiah Yadav, and Narendra Revanuri, Trans., “A 2025 meta-analysis in non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) indicates glucocorticoid administration is significantly associated with worse progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for patients on ICIs”, WJAMS, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 1–3, Nov. 2025, doi: 10.65336/WJAMS.2025.21101.