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Page 2480 1 effects of chemotherapy is that it is not selective in 2 killing cells. 3 It kills any cells that are growing and some 4 cells that are normal cells get killed as a result as 5 well. 6 Q And when you say it kills cells that are 7 rapidly growing, in what parts of the body and what 8 part of the body and what types of cells are you 9 talking about? 10 A For example, the hair follicle cells are 11 rapidly growing as evidence by the fact that we get 12 haircuts every couple of weeks or months. 13 So one of the very common side effects of 14 chemotherapy is hair loss, because you are killing in 15 part a number of the cells in the scalp that are 16 rapidly growing and turning over and producing hair. 17 Another common place where we have some 18 degree of rapidly growing cells is in our 19 gastrointestinal tract. And the cells that line the 20 mouth, the esophagus, the food tube, the stomach are 21 fairly rapid turnover cells, and so it is very common