Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy drugs are a group of medicines known as antineoplastics (“against cancer”). Most antineoplastics work by stopping cell division. This causes cell death in any dividing cell, and since most cells are not dividing all the time, the resulting effect of these medications is that they preferentially kill newly rapid growing cancer cells. The side effect is that they do kill other cell types which divide frequently: cells in the gastrointestinal tract, the bone marrow, and hair follicles. Fortunately, these effects will reverse when the drug is discontinued, but those rapidly dividing cancer cells stay dead.

• Chemotherapy
• Antineoplastic Agents
  • Tamoxifen