Can steroids reverse nerve damage from cancer radiation?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Disease free adult survivors of oropharyngeal cancer * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Treated with radiotherapy \>= 2 years post treatment (disease status per surveillance imaging and clinical surveillance) * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Late radiation-associated lower cranial neuropathy of XII with or without X nerve (LCNP cases will be considered therapy-related when imaging, physical examination, and/or biopsy fail to demonstrate structural or malignant source) * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Willing and able to return for assessment post-steroid therapy * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Able to complete symptom survey (MD Anderson Symptom Inventory - Head and Neck \[MDASI-HN\]) in validated languages: English, simplified Chinese, Filipino, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Disease-free adult survivors of head and neck cancer * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: \>= 2 years post treatment (disease status per surveillance imaging and clinical surveillance) * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Late lower cranial neuropathy of XII with or without X nerve (LCNP cases will be considered therapy-related when imaging, physical examination, and/or biopsy fail to demonstrate structural or malignant source) * INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Able to complete symptom survey (MDASI-HN) in validated languages: English, simplified Chinese, Filipino, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese Exclusion Criteria: * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Uncontrolled diabetes * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic \> 160; diastolic \> 90) * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Known gastrointestinal ulcer * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: History of psychosis * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Pregnant women * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Untreated or treatment refractory obstructive pharyngoesophageal stricture * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: Known history or diagnosis of bipolar disorder * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR CLINICAL TRIAL: History of surgery near hypoglossal nerve path * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Uncontrolled diabetes * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic \> 160; diastolic \> 90) * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Known gastrointestinal ulcer * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: History of psychosis * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Pregnant women * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Untreated or treatment refractory obstructive pharyngoesophageal stricture * EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR REGISTRY: Known history or diagnosis of bipolar disorder