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I feel like I came across some similar research years ago.

It brought up a question that I'm hoping someone in this field could answer: Does it make sense to speed up cancer cell replication while providing chemo drugs?

It seems like this would result in greater discrimination between fast-replicating cells (cancer) and normal cells. In turn, this would allow faster chemo treatments, or less collateral damage.

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I'm not in the field at all, but this also sounds slightly dangerous in a way. Chemo isn't instant and constant, so you'd have to time this well i suppose.

Nonetheless this is a take from someone who has limited scientific knowledge, so I'm curious to see responses on this question!

I’m a biologist (but not a cancer biologist). A lecturer in college explained that this is how chemo works. It impacts actively dividing cells. Your own stem cells divide but not as fast as tumor’s. So this seems right in theory.

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