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How do antifolates work re leukemia? I don't understand how healthy blood cells can get enough folate to mature when the same body's cancerous blast cells are being starved of it. Without folate, an otherwise healthy person gets anemic. How does this not apply to cancer patients? Can someone please explain?
The rapidity of cell division is listed as the reason but I would appreciate a little more explanation, an analogy, sumpin'!
Is it like giving the parent healthy blood cell and blast cell each a million bucks and each give their daughter cells each half and so on? So the faster the quicker blast cells procreate, the less the kids get? Can't the daughters go get their own supply? I don't understand! Please enlighten me!
Thanks in advance.
The rapidity of cell division is listed as the reason but I would appreciate a little more explanation, an analogy, sumpin'!
Is it like giving the parent healthy blood cell and blast cell each a million bucks and each give their daughter cells each half and so on? So the faster the quicker blast cells procreate, the less the kids get? Can't the daughters go get their own supply? I don't understand! Please enlighten me!
Thanks in advance.