Friday, January 20, 2012

Most medicines used in cancer chemotherapy work by inhibiting cell division. Knowing this, explain why...?

the drug recognizes any rapidly dividing cell as cancerous because this is a major characteristic of a cancer cell. The problem is, hair cells also rapidly reproduce, so the drug sees hair cells as cancer cells and kills them as well. When the therapy is over, the hair will grow back.

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