How does chemotherapy make one more like to be infertile exactly?
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this stems from one of the downsides of chemotherapy which is it’s lack of specificity. it kills cancer cells but it also kills some of the other healthy cells.
one mechanism some chemo drugs target is cell division as cancer is associated with a high rate of cellular division. However, the process of creating egg and sperm relies on cellular division, so the types of drugs that target cell division will stop of the production of egg and sperm
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