Can a drug itself cause the disease it is meant to cure?

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I came across something that said that if drugs are taken in concentrations other than the normal ones, they can start causing the disease instead of curing it.

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The chemotherapy agents used to treat cancer can, themselves, give rise to other cancers. So… yes.

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