A medication that is used in brain tumour treatment to help reduce swelling caused by the tumour itself or by its treatment. (They are NOT anabolic steroids, that athletes sometimes use to bulk up their muscles.) Steroids are substances that are made naturally in the body, but they can also be made artificially in the laboratory.
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