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What are the ways that chemotherapy treatments work?
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Many ways: Chemotherapy is a group of chemicals used to treat a wide variety of cancers. They have different mechanisms of action, but, in general, the common theme is that they stop cancer cells from growing and thus kill them off.
Answered 4/9/2018
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