Why does anti cancer drug treatment lead to hair loss and nausea?

Question by carmaceta1022: Why does anti cancer drug treatment lead to hair loss and nausea?
I need help with a paper. Many anti cancer drugs are directed at either stabilizing or destabilizing the tubulin protein that makes up microtubules and are very effective in treating cancer…..so why the hair loss and nausea?

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Answer by lvminole
The hair loss is due the chemicals killing all rapidly growing sells, not just the cancerous cells, and your hair is one of those kinds of cells, chemo is not specific for cancerous cells, just rapidly growing cells, I can’t think of the name for it. As for nausea, it is b/c you are basically poisoning yourself, but for the betterment of your health.

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