A patient is being administered chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer. Which of the following blood cells will be stimulated by the colony-stimulating factors in response to the effects of the chemotherapy?
A) White blood cells
B) Red blood cells
C) Phagocytes
D) Myocardial cells
B
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Chemotherapeutic agents have the potential to decrease red blood cells and will result in the colony-stimulating factors stimulating the production of red blood cells. The colony-stimulating factors do not affect the white blood cell production, phagocytes, or cardiac cells.
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