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Cancer cells undergo very rapid cell division. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy usually destroy the fastest?

  • Cancer cells undergo very rapid cell division. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy usually destroy the fastest growing cell growing cell in the body, including cancer cells. Explain the fact that loss of hair and vomiting/diarrhea are frequent side-effects of cancer therapy.

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    Basically because chemo/rads kill rapidly dividing cells which includes follicular cells and every other cell in the body, chemo/rads is somewhat dumb and doesn't determine the difference between good & bad cells, thats why targeted therapy is in the process of being researched and developed to avoid killing off the good along with the bad.

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In chemo and radiation therapies, it is just like using powerful drugs to work just like AK-47 to kill benign tissues. In the process, the surrounding healthy tissues/cells get destroyed and hence the side effects.

Dr.dhananjaya Bhupathi

Cannabis (more commonly known as marijuana) kills cancer cells through autophagy: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37948 Doctor's and scientist tell all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzJVT38pgFE

R.C. Scott

hair follicles are also rapidly growing cells that the chemo attracts.the vomiting and diarrhea are caused by the toxicity of the poisons being put into the body.

rachel

Radiation therapy does not target rapid cell division. This is why precise measurements are taken.

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