Your next door neighbor has recently been diagnosed with...

Name: Your next door neighbor has recently been diagnosed with cancer, a lymphoma, and is undergoing chemotherapy. He has been instructed not to eat anything that has not been cooked. No raw vegetables or meat, including fish. He is not sure why this is. He knows you are taking a microbiology class and asks you to explain why. What can you tell him?
Uploaded: 2022-06-26T23:56:05-08:00
Duration: 4 min 42 s
Channel: Hahram Kim
Description: Your next door neighbor has recently been diagnosed with cancer, a lymphoma, and is undergoing chemotherapy. He has been instructed not to eat anything that has not been cooked. No raw vegetables or meat, including fish. He is not sure why this is. He knows you are taking a microbiology class and asks you to explain why. What can you tell him?

Your next door neighbor has recently been diagnosed with cancer, a lymphoma, and is undergoing chemotherapy. He has been instructed not to eat anything that has not been cooked. No raw vegetables or meat, including fish. He is not sure why this is. He knows you are taking a microbiology class and asks you to explain why. What can you tell him?

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00:01 Hey there.

00:02 So the best answer this question, we should probably go into what exactly chemotherapy is, what it does, and the side effects that it has.

00:08 So starting off with the first part, chemotherapy is a broad set of terms for the use of chemicals and drugs that end up either killing or severely weakening cancer cells within a patient's body.

00:39 And so the theory behind chemotherapy is that since cancer cells grow and divide at a much faster rate than, the cells around them, the normal healthy cells, cancer cells would thus have to take in and process things at a much faster rate than normal cells.

00:56 And so as a result of this increased rate of progress, what happens is that when these cancer -killing drugs and chemicals are introduced, the cancer cells are more likely than their neighboring normal cells to take these in and as a result be more affected at a much faster rate.

01:14 And so that sort of helps sift out the risk of more serious indiscriminate damage done by chemotherapy and really relegate it more to having cancer cells be more likely to die off.

01:29 So i'll make note of that here.

01:40 Grow faster.

01:42 And thus they would die faster if treated with these chemotherapy drugs.

01:48 Now, of course, this treatment has its own sure drawbacks, namely being like i've said before, although they try to mitigate indiscriminate damage, chemotherapy is not an exact size, and there will be some collateral damage done to normal cells that are caught in the crossfire between these chemotherapy drugs and chemicals, which i'll make note of here.

02:12 Collateral damage...

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