Anti-neoplastic Agents 2 - Antimetabolites Flashcards
Antimetabolites: Purine Analog - 6-Mercaptopurine (6MP) MOA and Reduce dose when?
Activated by HGPRT to 6-thioinosinic monophosphate –> inhibition of purine nucleotide synthesis
Reduce dose if given with allopurinol
Antimetabolites: Purine Analog - 6-thioguanine (6TG) (1)
No dose modification with allopurinol
Antimetabolites: Pyrimidine Antagonists - 5-fluorouracil (5FU) (MOA (2)
5FU –> Fdump
Inhibits thymidylate synthase –> thymineless death
Antimetabolites: Pyrimidine Antagonists - 5-fluorouracil (5FU) Toxicities (4)
- Nausea
- Mucositis (esophageal ulcers)
- Diarrhea
- Hand and foot syndrome
Antimetabolites: Pyrimidine Antagonists - 5-fluorouracil (5FU) Capecitabine MOA
Convereted to fluorouracil in the tumor
Antimetabolites: Pyrimidine Antagonists - 5-fluorouracil (5FU) Cytarabine Dependent and Use
Highly schedule dependent (S phase)
Used in acute myelogenous leukemia
Antimetabolites: Folate Antagonist - Methotrexate (MTX) MOA (4)
Inhibits dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)
Tetrahydrofolate not synthesized
Inhibits DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis
Antimetabolites: Folate Antagonist - Normal cells require folic acid, so what do we do?
Leucovorin rescue (folinic acid)
Antidote to methotrexate toxicity
Antimetabolites: Others - Hydroxyurea Use (2)
Used for CML
Used for Sickle Cell Anemia (low dose) –> increase fetal Hbf synthesis
- Antibiotics (Anthracyclines): Doxorubicin and Daunorubicin MOA (3)
- Inhibits topoisomerase II
- Binds to DNA through intercalation blockade of the synthesis of DNA and RNA, and DNA strand scission
- Generation of semiquinone free radicals
- Antibiotics (Anthracyclines): Doxorubicin and Daunorubicin Side Effects (3) and Antidote
- Cardiotoxicity (side effects)
- Acute: pericarditis, arrythmia, ECG changes
- Chronic: CHF
Antidote: Dexrazoxane (prevents CHF) - chelating agent
- Antibiotics (Anthracyclines): Radiation Recall Reaction - Bleomycin MOA
Causes DNA strand scission
- Antibiotics (Anthracyclines): Radiation Recall Reaction - Bleomycin Side effects (2)
- Pulmonary toxicity (pneumonitis with cough, dyspnea, rales, infiltrates)
- Skin (redness, hyperpigmentation, and skin tenderness)
- Mitotic Inhibitors: Vinca Alkaloids MOA (2)
Bind to tubulin: block microtubular polymerization
Cell division is arrested in meta phase
- Mitotic Inhibitors: Vinca Alkaloids - Vinblastine Side Effects (2)
- Bone marrow suppression
2. Alopecia (side effect)