Question

Type of medicine kills cancer cells in the body, but also kills healthy cells? a.analgesics

Answer 1

There are choices for this question namely:

a.chemotherapy
b.antibiotics
c.analgesics
d.steroids

The correct answer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapeutic drugs such as Paclitaxel and Doxorubicin act on the cancer cells by interrupting various cellular processes that eventually lead to cell death. Cell death of malignancies are favorable but chemotherapeutic drugs are non-selective which means they have no way of being specific to cancer cells. These chemotherapeutic drugs also target healthy cells.