Anticancer Flashcards

1
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What class of drugs inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells?

A

Cytotoxic drugs

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2
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What are your cytotoxic drugs?

A

Alkylating

Antimetabolites

Cytotoxic Antibiotics

Plant Derivatives

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3
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What class of drugs form covalent bonds within DNA strands, resulting in a cytostatic effect

A

Alkylating agents

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4
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What class of drug blocks or subvert one or more metabolic pathways involved in DNA synthesis

A

Antimetabolites

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5
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What class of drug forms stable complexes with DNA preventing replication

A

Cytotoxic Ab

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6
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What class of drug affects microtubule function and the formation of the mitotic spindle?

A

Plant derivatives

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7
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What class of drug inhibits tyrosine kinase. this doesn’t allow growth factor signals

A

Protein Kinase Inhibitors

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8
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Are alkylating agents cytostatic effect limited to dividing cells?

A

No!

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9
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What alkylating agent has to be activated in the liver?

A

Cyclophosphamide

Dacarbazine

Lomustine

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10
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What tx sterile hemorrhagic cystitis

A

N-acetylcystein

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11
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What alk agent has the lowest chance of toxicity?

A

Chlorambucil

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12
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activation in the cell when Cl groups are replaced by hydroxyl groups and the complex becomes positively charged, interaction with proteins and nucleic acids of both RNA and DNA?

A

Cisplatin

Carboplatin

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13
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Which is safer, and can be used in cats, cisplatin or carboplatin

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Carboplatin

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What drug inhibits the production of nucleic acids and proteins essential for cell division and the cytoplasm?

A

Antimetabolites

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15
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What drug competes for dihydrofolate reductase?

A

Methotrexate

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16
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Which drug has a toxic effect on BM and GIT?

A

Methotrexate

17
Q

Tx for malignant lymphoma?

A

Methotrexate

18
Q

What drug inhibits thymidyalte synthase?

A

5 Fluorouracil

19
Q

What drug enhances the effect of 5-FU

20
Q

Which drugs bind to tubulin?

A

Vinca alkaloids:

Vincristine and vinblastine

21
Q

Tx of malignant lymphoma, cTVT

A

Vincristine

22
Q

What drug binds to microtubules, preventing normal dynamic reorganization?

23
Q

What are your SE of taxanes?

A

BM tox

Anaphylactic reactions

24
Q

What drug binds to DNA by intercalating causing single strand DNA breaks

A

Dactinomycin

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What drug triggers topoisomerase II dependent DNA fragmentation?
Doxorubicin
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What drug binds to DNA preventing replication?
Mitoxantrone
27
What drug produces single and double strand breaks in the DNA creating free radicals?
Bleomycin
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What are your SE of l-asparaginase?
HS rxn Pancreatitis
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What are you tyrosine kinase inhibitors?
Imatinib Toceranib Mastinib
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What drug stimulates alveolar macrophages and promotes lymphocyte cytotoxicity?
BCG
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Tx of osteosarcoma?
BCG
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What transports growth regulator proteins and tumor suppressor genes out of the nucleus?
XPO-1 | exportin-1
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What drugs inhibit XPO-1?
Selinexor Verdinexor
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Tx of perianal gland tumors?
Delmadinone
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Mammary carcinomas?
Tamoxifen
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What cancer do you see Acute tumor lysis syndrome in?
Malignant lymphoma after chemo or radiotherapy
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Which drugs cause an acute type 1 HS rxn?
Doxorubicin l-asparaginase
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What drugs cause diarrhea? 3
MTX Doxorubicin Vincristine