The nurse is teaching a class about the various chemotherapy drugs. Which of these statements explains why alkylating drugs are also called "cell cycle-nonspecific drugs"?
A) They are cytotoxic during a specific cell cycle.
B) They are cytotoxic in any phase of the cell cycle.
C) They are effective against several types of neoplasms.
D) They are more highly differentiated than cell cycle-specific drugs.
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