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How to dose cytotoxic chemotherapeutic drugs

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Cytotoxic drugs or cytostatics: Cytotoxic medications or cytostatics are drugs used to pulverize tumor cells. Cytotoxic drugs inhibit cell division and in this way cause cancer cells to die. Cytotoxic medications are transported in the circulatory system all through the body. Cytotoxic medications can be utilized to crush tumors, help the results of medical procedure or radiotherapy, decrease metastases and reduce malignancy indications.  Cytostatics can destroy small tumours that have not been detected in test .  Cytotoxic drugs affect all dividing cells, including those of healthy tissue. But since disease cells regularly isolate notably quicker than ordinary cells, they are especially delicate to cytostatics. The consequences for ordinary cells are less pronounced and healthy cells also recover faster. Cytotoxic chemotherapeutic specialists have narrow therapeutic windows and vast individual fluctuation in pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, dosing of these operators ...