Anti-Neoplastics Flashcards
What are the mechanisms that anticancer drugs act on?
1) damage DNE
2) Inhibit synthesis or funtion of DNA
3) ACtion on Mitotic Spindle
4) targeted DRUGS (MABs, NIBs, and mTOR inhibitors)
Cell cycle spefic drugs
most effective in the certian phases of the cell cycle
cell cycle NON specific
their targets are present in both the cell cycle and resting cells
What are alkylating agents?
- moiety bound to DNA to stop cell cycle
- Nitrogen mustards
- Alkyl sulfonates
- Nitrosoureas
- Aziridines
- Antibiotics
- Platinum drugs
- Triazenes
- Hydrazines
What is adjuvant therapy?
given to activate the immune response after surgery
What is neoadjuvant therapy?
given to debulk the tumore, and remove tumor cells from the inffected site
What is Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS)
a multi-factorial process,
- the lysis of tumor cells relases purine nucleic acids K+ and P
- get renal saturation due to elimination
- uric acid deposites with calciump
- volume depetion, tubular obstruction, cytotoxic chemotherapy
How do you manage TLS?
hydration!!!!
allopurino to prevent uric acid formation
Rasburicase to degrade uric acit to water soluble allantoin for elimination
What are teh bischloroethylamine alkylating agents?
cyclophosphamide ifosfamide merchlorethamine melphalan chlorambucil
What are the mechanisms of the bischloroethylamine alkylating agents?
- transfer alkyl group ot DNA
- N7 guanine
- ss or ds DNA cross-linking DNA modified
- Resulting in miscoding; strand breakage via guanine excision
What are the resistance mechanisms of the bischloroethylamine alkylating agents?
-v uptake
v activation
^ inactivation (conjugation) of reactive moiety (^rate& capactity) or ^ repair of DNA miscodes
What are adverse effects of the bischloroethylamine alkylating agents?
- does-related toxicites
- direct vesicant action (avoided where orally acitve)
- eps toxic to rapidly dividing cell populations (bone marrow, GI, Reporductive systems, alopecia)
- N/V (use 5HT3 antagoinist)
- CNS(ifosfamide– chloroactealdehyde)– altered mental status etc
- Lungs (ALL ALKYLATING AGENTS esp cyclophosphamide, chlorambucil, melphalan
- — fibrosis, dyspenea, cyanosis, pulmonary insufficiency
- carcinogenity- lekemias and solid tumors (secondary malignacies)
- Renal failure (cyclophosphaamide and ifosfamide)
- Urotoxicity/bladder tumore (acrolein released by cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide)
- – sever hemorrhagi cycstitis (MENSA prevents)
What is Mesna and what does it prevent?
a phophylatic chemoprotectant from hemorrhagic cystitis
-IV/oral
What does cyclophosphamide do and when is ti used?
total immune system ablation
used for allogenic stem cell transplantation, and RA
What are the alkyl sulfonates?
Busulfan
What are the toxicities, of busulfan?
myelosuppression, at conventional doses
pulmonary fibrosis
GI damage
Veo-occlusive diseasze of the liver, increased by coincident cyp inhibitors
asthenia and HYT resembing addison’s disease
What are the Nitorsoureas?
Carmustine and Lomustine (both akylators)
-carmustine decompostition products carbamolyate proteins– inhibit DNA repair
Is cross resistance with other alkylating agents comon for hte nitrosoureas’?
NO!!
What is the distributation of the nitrosoureas’?
enter CNS in measurable concentrations b/c hygly lipophilic & non-ionized at physicologic pH
What are the toxicities for the nitrosoureas’?
thromobcytopenia, leucopenia, N/V, administration site rxns
pulmonary fibrosis
endocrine dysfunction with brain irradiation
– hyperprolactinemia, and hypthyroidism (v throxin T4)
-encephalopathy and seizures
^ transminases, alkalin phosphatase, and hyper bilirubinemia
What is thiotepa and what are its toxicities?
a polyfunctional aziridine alkylator
- forms intersrand cross-links of DNA
- lipophilic (IV, IVe, or IC)
- Toxicities: myelosuppression, neurooxic, injection site rnx, dysuria, urinary urgency, urinary retention, chemical or hemorrhagic cystitis
What is mitomycin and what does it do?
a bioreductive alkylating agent -metabolically activated under reducing contictions (hypoxic solid tumor) -superoxide free radical generation -bone marrow suppression (slow recovery) Injection site rns (hemolytic anemia)
What are the platinum drugs?
cisplatin, carboplatin, oxaliplatin
What does cisplatin do?
-intrastand DNA links with N7 guanine,
The DNA relication and transcription interrupted (breaks and miscoding, P53/checkpoint proteins -> induction of apoptosis)
What are the toxic effects of cisplatin?
nephrotoxic!!! (amifostine a cytoprotective agent!!!)
Ototoxicity (hearing loss)
mild to mod- myelosuppression
marked N/V (ondansetron + steroids + aprepitant (NK-1 antagonist))
porgressive peripheral, motor & sensory neuropathy
What is Dacarbazine?
a triazine DNA methylating agent (O6 guanine)
resistance due to removal of methyl groups form teh O6 guanine bases by AGT
What are the toxicites of Dacarbazine?
Myelosuppression; leukopenia, thrombocytopenia,
N/V
What are the DNA methlyating agents?
Trazewnes and Hydrazine
What is procarbazine and what is its mechanism?
a highly reactive DNA methylaor via CYP activation – causes damage via creaks and translocations
What is the resistance to procarbazines?
rapid when use as a single agent due to guanine repair via guanin-O6-alky transferase, and also lacks cross-resistance with other mustratd-type alkylators
What are the adverse/ toxicities seen with procarbazine?
leukopenia and thromobytopenia -Mild N/V -Weak MAO inhibitor , hypertensive DDrns -Disulfiram-like actions (alcohol ingestion to be avoided) potent immunosuppressive
What are the antimetabolites?
- folic acid analogs
- pyrimidine analogs
- purine analogs and related inhibitors
What are the folic acid analogs?
Methotrexates
What are the pyrimdine analogs?
Fluorouracil (5-FU)
capecitabine
Cytarabine
Gemcitabine
What are the purine analogs and related inhibitors?
Pentostatin
cladridine
Fludarabine
What is methotrexates mechanism?
a DHFR inhibitor, adn is trapped in cell due to polyglutamated
What is important about the methotrexate mechanism, due to THF?
methotrexate deplets the THF from all cells and thus must use Leucovorin to rescuce the cells that are not tumor cells,
What are the other methotrexate analogs?
Pemetrexed
Trimetrexate
What are the toxicites of methotrexate?
GI, N/V, abdominal distress
- Bone marrow, anemia, lymphoproliferative disorders
- weak acid; hydrate adn alkaliinize urine
- pneumonitis
- anemia in RA or psoriasis (MTX and 5-FU)
What are the resistance mechanisms for MTX?
V uptake/^ efflux; V polyglutamation
-^ DHFR enxyme levels & or modified structures
What is 5FU mechanism?
Inhibits DNA synthesis by “thymineless death” (FdUMP)
incorporated into DNA to inhibit synthesis and function (FdUTP)
interference with mRNA translation (FUTP)
What are the resistance mechanisms for 5-FU?
V activation of 5-FU; muation of TS; upregulation of TS (feedback b/c unbound enxyme inhibitis own mRNA)
What are the toxicites of 5-FU?
Acute chest pain (ischemia)
myelosuppression, anemia, mucositis, diarrhea,
-Hand and foot syndrome!!! – peripheral neuopathy!!!!!!!
What is the interaction with leucovorin?
5-FU: increase formation of TS complex and enchances the response to 5-FU
MXT: given as a THF rescue
What is Capecitabine, and how is it similar/differnt from this durg?
a pre-drug of 5-FU
-similar toxicities!!! (hand-foot syndrome ^ in frequency)
what is the mechanism of cytarabine?
a antimetabolite, pyrimide analog
- converted to ARA-CTP
- – the 2’hydroxyl hinders 3-D bond rotation; interferes with base stacking
- inhibition of chain elongation (leads to shortened DAN strands)
- Multiple DNA strand duplications (increase recombination possibilites)
What are the resistance and toxicites for cytarabine?
Resistance: V cellular uptake; decreased ARA-C conversion to ARA-CTP; or increased ARA-CTP to ARA-UMP (inactive)
Toxicitiy: potent myelosuppressive agent; severe leukopeina, thromovytopenia, and anemia, megaloblastic changes
-GI, and noncardiogenic pulomary edema
What is Gemitabine?
has an additional bp, and the repair is more difficult
-better penetration/retention; affinity for dinase
Toxicity is myelosuppresion, flu like symptoms and ^ liver transaminases
What is mercaptopurine’s resisances?
- v or complete lack of HGPRT
- ^alkaline phosphatase activity
- v drug uptake and ^ efflus
- altered enxyme sturcture
- altered recognition of DNA breaks
DDI with mercaptopurine?
Allopuinol!!! must reduce does to avod excessive toxicity!!!
What is the benifit of TPMT genotyping with mercaptopurine administration?
if low TPMT leves will have to use ^ does of drug to be benificial
What is thioguanine?
similar mechanism of action as 6MP (RNA & DNA synthesis inhibition; incorporation of thio-nulecotide into RNA and DNA), with similar resistance mechanisms
What is the mechanism of fludarabine & cladribine?
-rephosphorylated intracellularly ot acitve triphosphate derivative (resistance; v enxyme activeity – not P)
-inhibits DNA synthesis & ribonucleotide reductase
-activeates apoptosis (acive agains indolent disease
they have long lasting effects
What are the natural products?
Plant alkaloids and mold products
What are the vinca alkaloids?
Vincristine
Winblastine
Vinorelbine
What are the amptothecin analgos?
Topotecan
Irinotecan
What are the podophyllotoxins?
Paclitazel
Docetaxel
What are the anthracyclines?
Doxorubicin Daunorubicin Epirubicin Idarubicin Mitoxantrone
What are the Bleomycins
Bleomycin
What are the actinomycins?
actiomcin D
What are the asparaginase?
asparaginase
What is extravasataion toxicity?
Excape of drug from vascular causeing excessive toxicity (localized) and loss of tissue which can be devilitating and plastic surgery to correct
What is the mechanism of the vinca alkaloids?
they bind specifically to b-tublin and block tubulin (alpha and beta) polymerization
-this arrests cells in metaphase (apoptosis)