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What are common chemicals used in chemotherapy?

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Lots of them!: cancer chemotherapy has a very large number of chemicals/drugs that are used...at least over 100 are commonly used drugs at present, many older ones have been discarded as better ones came along. Why do you ask this question?

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Answered 11/21/2014

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