You Are a Physician Treating a Patient with Cancer

question 16

Essay

You are a physician treating a patient with cancer.Traditional chemotherapy has not been working on this patient,so you prescribe a new class of drugs called taxanes,which inhibit microtubule function.Your patient asks you how they work.How would you explain to your patient how these drugs work?

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Definitions:

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Allowance Budgeting

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