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The Five Chemo Classes

Classic chemotherapy has no way to tell a cancer cell from any other fast-dividing cell — so a drug’s class tells you what it breaks, what it poisons on the way, and what you watch. Tap a class, or tap the machine it attacks inside the cell.

The dividing cell

Tap the cell — surface receptor, the DNA in the nucleus, the nucleotide pool, or the spindle.
Strike site — pick a class to light it up
Five chemo classestap one to begin