Common Cancer Drugs Are Harmful To Brain Cells
in Cancer News, Cancer Research, Cancers, Drug, Prevention @ 7:16 am by Know Cancer NewsCommon cancer drugs may be more harmful to the brain than the tumor cells they are meant to destroy.
Cancer chemotherapy can damage the brain, killing crucial brain cells and causing key parts of the brain to shrink, according to the study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and published in the Journal of Biology.
Laboratory tests have shown that dose levels typically used when treating patients killed 70-100 per cent of neural cells but just 40-80 per cent of cancer cells. Several types of healthy brain cell continued to die for at least six weeks after exposure. Even though the cancer drugs are targeted at replicating cancer cells, the researchers found that both replicating and non replicating brain cells were killed.
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