Chemotherapeutic drugs can cause?: (A) Only necrosis, (B) Only apoptosis, (C) Both necrosis and apoptosis, (D) Anoikis
Answer is C. Ans. is 'c' i.e., Both necrosis and apoptosis o Injurious stimuli, e.g., radiation, cytotoxic anticancer durgs, heat and hypoxia, can induce apoptosis if the insult is mild, but large doses of same stimuli result in necrotic cell death.