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Today's Daily Dose: Metronomic chemotherapy
The key to this alternative form of cancer therapy.
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“Metronomic chemotherapy still involves the use of chemotherapy drugs, but these drugs are given more frequently at a much lower dose. The targets of metronomic chemotherapy are circulating endothelial cells and other factors that control angiogenesis.”
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