Which are guidelines for selecting chemotherapeutic agents to use in combination therapy? (Select all that apply.)
a. Drugs used should have different me-chanisms.
b. Each drug should be delivered by differ-ent routes.
c. Each drug should be effective.
d. Each drug should have different dosing schedules.
e. Toxicities should be minimally overlap-ping.
A, C, E
When selecting drugs for combination therapy, each drug should be effective by itself and should have a different mechanism of action. The drugs should have minimally overlapping toxicities. The routes and the dosing schedules are not considerations.
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