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

from the original order (top to bottom) the new order will go

1 (founder)

4 (hawk)

2 (mutate)

3 (next generation)