A nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about how cytotoxic anticancer drugs affect normal cells. Which statement by a student indicates an understanding of this teaching?

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Cytotoxic drugs kill target cells as well as normal cells, since they lack specificity for cancer cells alone. Cytotoxic drugs therefore, have a low degree of selective toxicity. The differences between cancer cells and normal cells are quantitative and not qualitative. Neoplastic cells and normal cells are very similar.

A Nurse Is Teaching a Group of Nursing Students About