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Medications for cancer treatment are vary nowadays. Some of them are in oral dosage form.

In the past 10 years, the use of oral anticancer agents for the treatment of various type of cancer has been increasing. Of all the cancer therapy under clinical development, 20 to 25% are expected to be oral. However, these drugs are still cytotoxic.

In this video, Deputy Chiang will explain the risks of oral cytotoxic drugs and how to prepare these drugs safely.

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