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Question: Antibiotic drugs act as competitive inhibitors for metabolic pathways in invading microbes, but do not interfe?
Antibiotic drugs act as competitive inhibitors for metabolic pathways in invading microbes, but do not interfere with the metabolic pathways in human cells. Using this information, explain how cancer-preventing drugs are designed to work. Why is it difficult to develop a cancer-preventing drug?
Answers:
Because any cancer-preventing drug could also attack the "good" cells and it's pretty hard to develope something that only attacks the "bad" cells.