Prior to administering a dose of 5-FU to a patient with pancreatic cancer, the nurse is conducting the necessary drug research. The nurse is aware that 5-FU is a cell cycle–specific chemotherapeutic agent. Which statement best describes cell cycle–specific drugs?

They affect cancerous cells during a particular phase of cellular reproduction.

Explanation:

Cell cycle-specific drugs are chemotherapy drugs including cancer, they kill cancer when the cancer cells when they're dividing or active, unlike cell cycle non specific that kills cancer when cells when at rest mode.

Usually considered to be the most effective against tumor in cancer patients.

For example, the following are some of the antitumor antibiotics are:

Anthracyclines: Mitoxantrone and Idarubicin.

Chromomycins: Dactinomycin and Plicamycin.

Miscellaneous: Mitomycin and Bleomycin

most community's take hundreds of years to become stable

stimulus is a change in the environment that causes an organism to react. the response is the reaction to the stimulus. some examples of stimuli for zebras are drought, to many predators, and bad feeding grounds such as dead grass or plants. zebras respond to stimuli just like all other living organisms