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The Molecular Perspective: Methotrexate
1 Sept 1999
Abstract excerpt
Chemotherapy is the art of selective poisoning. Many of the poisons used in modern chemotherapy rely on the observation that most cells in the body are not actively dividing, so substances that block some step in cell reproduction will have a disproportionately severe effect on growing cancer cells relative to most healthy tissues. Virtually every step of cell growth and division is targeted by some...
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