A Nursing Student Asks a Nurse Why Chemotherapeutic Agents Are

A nursing student asks a nurse why chemotherapeutic agents are given intermittently instead of continuously. The nurse will tell the student that intermittent dosing:

A) allows normal cells to recover and repopulate.
B) catches malignant cells in latent phases.
C) increases cancer cell kill and speeds up treatment.
D) suppresses drug resistance in tumor cells.

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