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Which type of medication kills cancer cells in the body, but also kills healthy cells?

A. antibiotics
B. Chemotherapy drugs
C. Analgesics
D. Steroids

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Which type of medication kills cancer cells in the body, but also kills healthy cells?

B. Chemotherapy drugs

Because cancer cells divide much more often than most normal cells, chemotherapy is much more likely to kill them. Some drugs kill dividing cells by damaging the part of the cell's control centre that makes it divide.

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