Question

1. Read the following:  
   • Many cancer treatments cause side effects such as hair loss and damage to the stomach and intestines, producing nausea.
     
2. Post a paragraph that addresses the following:  
   • What can you infer about the mechanisms of these treatments? Explain.
   • Imagine a person claims that an herb can cure cancer with few or no side effects. Do you think this claim could be true? Why or why not? Explain.
   • What experiment would you perform to test this claim? Justify your rationale.

Answer 1

Question

1. The cancer treatment are often targeted to kill anbormal growth of the cells or tumor in the body, but they also likely to interrupt normal cells of the body. Therefore, the cancer treatment affect the fast-growing cells of the body such as hair and digestive cells and ultimately lead to side effect such as hair-loss and damage to stomach and small-intestine.

2. No, I do not think claim that herbs could cause cancer. This is because it is not possible that any herb formulation is able to control uncontrol growth of the cells.

3. Experiment such as placebo test could be use to test the claim of the experiment. This is because each patient differe in their response to treatment.