How does chemotherapy kill cancer cells and why might it als

How does chemotherapy kill cancer cells, and why might it also result in hair loss and nausea?

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Chemotherapy includes treatment of cancer using monoclonal antibodies and purine derivative (6-mercaptopurine) and methotrexate that effetely damage the \"nucleic acid synthesis and DNA\" of cancer cells thus stops oncogene formation in a non-selective manner. This non-selective chemotherapeutic agents may resulted in \"damage to normal cell DNA\" finally causes immune cell suppression thus infection followed by nausea and vomiting are observed due to physiological imbalance. Severe hair loss is due to \"suppression of nucleic acid synthesis in hair follicles so that permanent hair loss (epilation) may occur with high doses of therapy. Chemotherapy may induce several oral infections & allergic infections. Therefore, nurses must educate the students to inform the patients suffering from immunodeficiency may exhibit severe anaphylactic reaction due to “allergic action”. This is due to lack of immune factors to act against these allergic factors.