A nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about how cytotoxic anticancer drugs affect normal cells. Which statement by a student indicates an understanding of this teaching?
a. "Cytotoxic drugs lack tissue specificity."
b. "Cytotoxic drugs have a high degree of selective toxicity."
c. "Differences between cancer cells and normal cells are qualitative."
d. "Neoplastic cells and normal tissue cells are very different."
A
Cytotoxic drugs kill target cells as well as normal cells, since they lack specificity for cancer cells alone. Cytotoxic drugs therefore have a low degree of selective toxicity. The differences between cancer cells and normal cells are quantitative and not qualitative. Neoplastic cells and normal cells are very similar.
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