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In theory it is the targeted cancerous cells. These may be in the original tumor or may have migrated away from it. But there may be some collateral damage to other more sensitive normal cells. In any case the dead or weakened cells are cleaned up by various scavenger cells in the blood and some products eliminated by organs like the liver.

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