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Which feature of cancer cells is targeted by chemotherapy?
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11 years ago
What do you mean feature? Like what about them makes them targets?

Well chemotherapy uses drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells, like cancer cells and that is why many chemotherapy patients also experience hair loss (as hair follicles divide fast), bowel discomfort (intestinal lining is rapidly dividing) and so on.
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11 years ago
Most commonly, chemotherapy acts by killing cells that divide rapidly, one of the main properties of cancer cells. This means that it also harms cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract and hair follicles; this results in the most common side effects of chemotherapy?myelosuppression (decreased production of blood cells), mucositis (inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract) and alopecia (hair loss).
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