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Many chemotherapy drugs target rapidly dividing cells, such as cancer cells. Why might cancer cells divide, and therefore evolve, more quickly than other cells

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The faster that cancer cells divide, the more likely it is that chemotherapy will kill the cells, causing the tumor to shrink. They also induce cell self-death or apoptosis. Chemotherapy drugs that kill cancer cells only when they are dividing are called cell-cycle specific.

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