How does chemo affect men, woman differently?

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And yeah.

Yeah.

Well we -- -- an apostle medical breakthrough regarding the number one treatment for cancer and new study claims men and women undergoing chemotherapy for -- Kenya.

Metabolize the drug in different ways in -- -- at the Cleveland clinic are saying this could lead to more precise treatments.

With a better results Dr.

Manny Alvarez is a senior managing editor of Fox News health dot com and America now a member of our medical eighteen it's -- to have your search.

Just talk about the way that this study showing that.

Men and women metabolize drugs differently and so there's really no one size fits all.

And that's the way the I think that that treatment for cancer is going I mean we know for a long time that.

Both men and women in general metabolize medications differently and that has a lot to do with -- the size of both men and women.

Carty got put Reno output and also the hormones that differ between men and women.

So now looking at the specifics that he they find that perhaps some people metabolize the chemotherapy faster and therefore becomes less affected.

So when you go on that -- is basically now moving forward.

What what a lot of cancer centers want to do is really focus the chemotherapy.

Not only looking at the specific medication -- the other part of the of the argument you know what chemotherapy is more effective.

For you as an individual based on -- say -- -- genetics and the type of tumor that you have.

But also how you metabolize the drug.

And therefore -- you know what's going to be the effective cure rate so this is a good great breakthrough and again it just piles on the fact.

That -- individualized medicine when it comes to cancer is going to be the future.

Would -- have an impact on the side effects and different side effects -- men and women.

Absolutely indeed because a lot of the side effects a lot of times you know.

As doctors try to kill more cancer cells and they see that it's not effective.

They may go ahead and increase the frequency of chemotherapy or even the dosage of chemotherapy.

Therefore increasing the side effects weather is you know -- an old cardiovascular and that nature.

-- -- Moving forward they gonna say well no we gonna find a specific chemotherapy but -- gonna really.

Change the dose -- -- based on the metabolism of the drug.

For these individual patients and and these are the differences on the conclusions that are coming from the study and usually this is -- real breakthrough this is of major breakthrough because.

That's exactly what you wanna do you want to get to a point that you know the type of cancer that you have what is the genetics of the cancer.

And then what is the individual metabolism of the patient that you have in front of you so that you can then create a portfolio of medications that are going to be effective.

Doctor -- thank you very -- appreciated thank you very much and thank you.

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