Comment by zamfi
2 years ago
Non-radioactive poisons are also used in targeted therapies.
Perhaps one advantage of these agents is that they degrade fast enough that they cause relatively limited harm after destroying their host cell, maybe unlike other poisons?
> Non-radioactive poisons are also used in targeted therapies.
you also risk selecting for some population of cancer cells to become resistant, thereby changing their biochemical profile and finding other drugs that work can become tricky