While drug-susceptible TB can be cured within six months, forms of drug-resistant TB (such as MDR-TB) require extensive chemotherapy (with drugs which have more side effects) for up to two years.
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然而,目前以化疗药物为主的方法会对很多健康细胞带来毒性,往往对病人造成严重的副作用。
However, current chemotherapy drugs administered in this fashion are toxic to many healthy cell types, often resulting in severe side effects for the patient.
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它是一种口服药物,并且没有化疗的许多副作用,比如脱发和血细胞计数下降。
It is an oral drug, and not associated with many of the side effects of chemotherapy, such as hair loss and falling blood counts.