What other types of chemotherapy kill cancerous cells?

What other types of chemotherapy kill cancerous cells?

Christian Cable, Dr. Ryan Osborne & Dr. Noam Z. Drazin (Cancer Experts) gives expert video advice on: What is 'chemotherapy'?; What are the basic types of chemotherapy?; How does chemotherapy work? and more...

One of the medicines called Vincristine, actually disturbs microtubules in mitosis where the cell's DNA is arranged in the middle of the cell in metaphase. These chromosomes are pulled back to opposite sides of the cell. Vincristine poisons that. Another form is called a topoisomerase inhibitor--drugs like Etoposide. Again, this is another function of DNA. Topoisomerase is an enzyme that helps DNA unwind from its double helix so that the cell can make a copy of it. This drug, Etoposide, interferes with that.Another form of chemotherapy is called an antimetabolite. These are medicines that mimic either parts of DNA or folic acid metabolism. They act as imposters to be put in normal cell metabolism. There are many more but the alkylating agents, the topoisomerase inhibitors and the antimetabolites are three main classes. In essence, however, you're just trying to interfere with normal cell function.