BELOW IS SOME TEXT CONCERNING CHEMOTHERAPY
Broadcast Transcript
PBS Air date: February 27, 2001
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2805cancer.html
NARRATOR: Today, treating cancer often involves extreme
measures and some of the most poisonous substances known.
DON INGBER (Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School): Conventional
cancer drugs, most of which are still derivatives of, basically, the
mustard gases used in warfare in World War I and are really toxic to any
cell, have the known side effects of you losing your hair, losing your
immune response, affecting your intestinal tract.
NARRATOR: Another problem
with chemotherapy is drug resistance, which occurs when cancer cells
mutate and become resistant to
drugs that once worked on them.
DON INGBER (Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School): Conventional
cancer drugs, most of which are still derivatives
of, basically, the mustard gases used in warfare in World War I
and are really toxic to any cell, have the known side effects of you
losing your hair, losing your immune response, affecting your intestinal
tract.
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