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How does chemo therapy work?
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Chemotherapy: The aim of chemotherapy is to poison and damage and kill cancer cells. This can be d one by directly damaging the cells. Most recently a new approach to treatment prevents the malignant cells from taking in needed nutrients, so they are starved to death.
Answered 8/29/2013
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