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RE: Should we use Personal Protection when handling or preparing cytostatic medicines?
I read this part
These drugs have characteristics that differentiate them from most, they are used to inhibit the uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells, but in turn they are highly toxic, they are mutagenic, teratogenic, cytotoxic, carcinogenic.
So I asked why can't we use a safe drug instead? Are there no alternative drugs without these serious hazards?
Hi. Obviously this post talks more about one aspect of biosecurity than about the characteristics of the drug itself, most of the drugs used to develop cancer have these cytotoxic characteristics, both for the patient and the professional who prepares it and who administers it. Now, within the therapies to fight cancer, molecular and genetic studies have been carried out and are being done every day to allow scientists to better understand the cellular activity. For these investigations, there is currently a targeted therapy based on drugs such as monoclonal antibodies and tyrosine kinase inhibitors that do not have as many cytotoxic effects, some being selective immune proteins act in a similar way to human antibodies, and others inhibit a protein responsible for various types of cancer, remember that the first drugs used still in the therapy against cancer, his finding was casual, in contrary the molecular biological therapy maybe in a short future we can give better results without much damage. I thank you for your interest in reading my post, and I invite you to read the previous ones.