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Hydroxychloroquine is not a chemo drug



It's a chemosensitizer, I'd say it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosensitizer

edit: It's still being researched, but it is an anti-cancer drug, just like how chemo drugs get classed.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...

Chemo drugs aren't really a technical category, but it seems like chloroquine will become part of the anti-cancer family soon.

Given our recent discovery that chemotherapy has only gives you a 2% greater chance of survival (again, your immune system fights of cancer just like it fights off viruses), I'm not so hopeful here.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...

(summary: chemotherapy actively kills people, some people would have survived without it)




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