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What are the three major ways in which tumors become resistant to cytarabine?

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  1. Downregulate transporter
  2. Downregulate deoxycyidine
  3. Upregulate cytidine deaminase
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What is the MOA of gemcitabine?

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difluorodeoxycytidine is converted by deoxycitidine kinase, and is incoroprated into DNA, and inhibits ribonucleotide reductase

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What are the two MOA of resistance to gemcitabine?

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Reduced deoxycytidine kinase

Increased production of deoxycytidine

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What is the MOA of 6-mercaptopurine and 6-thioguanine?

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HGPRT enzyme converts them to thio IMP or thioGMP, inhibiting RNA/DNA synthesis

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What is the enzyme that degrades 6MP and 6TG? What is significant about this enzyme?

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Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT)

Some in the population do not have this, thus have much higher toxicity levels

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What are the cancers that 6MP and 6TP treat?

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Acute myelogenous leukemia

Acute lymphocytic leukemia

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What are the adverse effects of 6MP and 6TP?

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Bone marrow suppression

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What is the MOA of resistance to 6MP and 6TP?

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Deficiency in HGPRT

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What is the MOA of fludarabine?

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Deoxycitidine kinase activates it in cells, and it is incorporated into DNA/RNA, and inhibiting DNA polymerase and ribonucleotide reductase

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What are the cancers the fludarabine is used to treat?

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chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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What is the MOA of resistance to fludarabine and cladribine?

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Decreased deoxycitidine kinase

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What is the MOA of cladribine?

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Deoxycitidine kinase activates it in cells, and it is incorporated into DNA/RNA, and inhibiting DNA polymerase and ribonucleotide reductase

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What is the enzyme that activates fludarabine and cladribine?

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deoxycitidine kinase

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Why do we have to give purine/pyrimidine analogs in an inactive form?

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Otherwise will not enter the cell

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What is the cancer that cladribine?

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Hair cell leukemia

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What is the general MOA of alkylating agents?

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intrastrand linking and cross linking

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17
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When in the cell cycle are alkylating agents effective?

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All stages

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What are the two nitrogen mustards that are used as alkylating agents?

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Mechlorethamine

Cyclophosphamide

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What cancer is mechlorethamine used to treat?

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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What are the unique adverse effects of cyclophosphamide? MOA?

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Hemorrhagic cystitis

converted to acrolein, which is toxic to the baldder cells

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What is the drug that you coadminister with cyclophosphamide to reduce the chances of developing hemorrhagic cystitis? MOA?

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Mesna

Inactivates acrolein

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What is the MOA of carmustine?

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Alkylating agent

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What is carmustine used to treat?

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Brain ca

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What are the adverse effects of alkylating agents?

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Mutagenic, teratogenic, and myelosuppressive

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What cancer develops with the use of alkylating agents?

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Leukemia

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Besides the usual routes of resistance to drugs, how do tumor resist alkylating agents?

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Inactivation by glutathione

Increased expression of 06-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT)

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What is the MOA of 06-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT)?

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Removes the alkyl groups on DNA that were added by alkylating agents

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28
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What is the MOA of the platinum compunds?

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Cause cross-linking of DNA

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29
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What are the three platinum compounds that act like alkylating agents?

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Cisplatin
Carboplatin
Oxaliplatin

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30
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Platinum compounds increase the risk for what cancer?

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Leukemia

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31
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Which causes less n/v: cisplatin or carboplatin?

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Carboplatin

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32
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What are the adverse effects of cisplatin?

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tinnitus
Nephrotoxicity
peripheral neuropathy

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What is the MOA of procarbazine? What is it used to treat?

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Non-classical alkylating agent

Hodgkins

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What is the MOA of dacarbazine?

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Non-classical alkylating agent

melanoima/sarcoma

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What is the MOA of temozolomide?

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Non-classical alkylating agent

Glioblastomas

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36
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What is the dynamic instability of microtubules?

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Constant breakdown and restructuring

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37
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What is the MOA of vinblasine and vincristine?

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Causes mitotic arrest by preventing formation of microtubules

38
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Which drug has neurotoxicity: vinblastine or vincristine?

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Vincristine

39
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What is the MOA of paclitaxel?

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Binds to beta tubulin of microtubules, and prevent the disassembly

40
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What is the MOA of docetaxel?

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Binds to beta tubulin of microtubules, and prevent the disassembly

41
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What are the adverse effects of paclitaxel?

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Myelosuppression and peripheral neuropathy

42
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What are the adverse effects of docetaxel?

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Periperhal neuropathy

43
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What is the drug that is used with paclitaxel, to reduce myelosuppression?

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Filgrastim

44
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What do topoisomerases do in DNA replication?

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Cut DNA, unwind, and repair the cut

45
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What are the two topoisomerase inhibitors?

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Irinotecan

Topotecan

46
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What is the MOA of etoposide?

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Class IITopoisomerase inhibitor

47
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What is the MOA of doxorubin?

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Abx that intercalates with DNA, leading to inhibition of DNA polymerase

48
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What is the significant adverse effect of doxorubin?

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cardiomyopathy via free radical formation

49
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What is the drug that is administered with doxorubicin that mitigates the cardiotoxicity?

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Dexrazoxane (Fe chelator)

50
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What is the MOA of bleomycin?

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Small glycopeptide antibiotic that chelates iron and copper and binds to DNA and causes
single and double strand breaks.

51
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What are the adverse effects of bleomycin?

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Pulmonary toxicity

52
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Which of the antineoplastic are minimally myelosuppressive (3)?

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Bleomycin
Vincritine
Methotrexate

53
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What is the MOA of glucocorticoids in the treatment of cancer?

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Inhibit lymphocyte proliferation

54
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What is the MOA of dexamethasone?

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Glucocorticoid

55
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What is the MOA of tamoxifen?

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Selective estrogen receptor modulator (competes for estrogen receptor)

56
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What are the adverse effects of tamoxifen?

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Increased risk of endometrial CA

Increased risk of thromboembolism

57
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What are the resistance mechanisms of tamoxifen?

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Estrogen receptor changes cause a reduced affinity with tamoxifen.

58
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What is the MOA of anastrozole?

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Aromatase inhibitor (recall that aromatase synthesizes estrogen from androgens in peripheral tissue)

59
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What is anastrozole used for?

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Treatment of breast cancers

60
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What are the two androgen receptor inhibitors? What are thy used to treat?

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Flutamide
Bicalutamide

Prostate CA

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What is the MOA of flutamide?

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androgen receptor inhibitor

62
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What is the MOA of bicalutamide?

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androgen receptor inhibitor

63
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What is the MOA of leuprolide?

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GnRH agonist

64
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What is the MOA of goserelin?

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GnRH agonist

65
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How do the GnRH agonists work?

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Cause a desensitization of the GnRH receptors, which reduces the secretion of both LH
and FSH from the anterior pituitary

66
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What is the MOA of degarelix

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GnRH antagonist, which decreases LH and FSH production

67
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What is the MOA of trastuzumab?

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Binds to estrogen growth signal receptor (HER2), and inhibits it

68
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What is the MOA of cetuximab?

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Monoclonal antibody against EGFR

69
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What are the adverse effects of trastuzumab?

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Cardiac toxicity if combined

70
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What cancer does cetuximab treat?

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EGRF expressing Colorectal cancers

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What is the mechanism of resistance to cetuximab?

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Acquiring activating mutations in RAS

72
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What is the general MOA of monoclonal antibodies in treating CA?

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Inhibit growth signals

Cause immune mediated destruction

73
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What is the MOA of bevacizumab?

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Ab against VEGF, inhibiting angiogenesis

74
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What is the cancer that bevacizumab is used to treat?

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clear cell renal cancer

75
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What are the adverse effects of bevacizumab?

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significant blood vessel injury and reduces wound healing

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What is the MOA of lapatinib?

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Inhibits EGFR and HER-2 kinase activity

77
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What is the MOA of erlotinib?

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EGRF inhibitor

ATP competitive inhibitor

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How does the EGRF molecule work?

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Y kinase that is activated extracellularly, when epidermal growth factor binds, and activates the MAP kinase cascade

79
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What is the therapeutic use of erlotinib?

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Nonsmall cell lung carcinoma if pts have mutation in gene

80
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How does resistance come about with erlotinib?

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Secondary mutation in EGRF or amplification of MET oncogene

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What is the MOA of imantinib (gleevec)?

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Binds to ABL portion of the philidelphia chromosome, and prevents kinase from binding its substrate/phosphate donor

82
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What is imantinib used to treat?

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Chronic myelogenous leukemia

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What is the mechanism of resistance to imantinib?

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Point mutation BCR-ABL protein to not bind imantinib anymore

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What is the MOA of asparaginase?

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Lowers blood [asparagine], which kills tumor cells since they cannot synthesize sufficient asparagine

85
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What is asparaginase used to treat?

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acute lymphoblastic leukemia

86
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What are the adverse effects of aparaginase?

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anaphylaxis

87
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What is the MOA of bortezomib? (2)

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Inhibits proteasome, which increases p53

88
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What cancer does bortezomib treat?

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multiple myeloma

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What is the main adverse effect with bortezomib?

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Peripheral neuropathy

90
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What is the MOA of temsirolimus?

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inhibition of mTOR complex, which promotes cell cycle

91
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What cancer is temsirolimus used to treat?

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renal cell carcinoma

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What is the mechanism of resistance against temsirolimus?

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mTOR 2 increased

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