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A member asked:
How does chemotherapy target exactly your colon cancer? does it kill off a lot of normal colon cells too?
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It doesnt: Chemo works by inhibiting/killing cells which grow faster than normal cells. There are side effects because normal cells divide as a normal function, so yes, normal cells are affected too. The trick is to give enough to kill the bad cells, and not so much that the side effects are intolerable.
Answered 10/3/2016
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