Cancer Pharmacology Flashcards
Activation of oncogenes overrides what part of cell cycle?
Inactivation of tumor suppressor genes overrides?
1) G1 arrest
2) G2 arrest
What anticancer drugs have cell cycle effects on the S-phase?
1) Methotrexate
2) 5-fluorouracil
3) 6-mercaptopurine
4) Topotecan
What anticancer drugs have cell cycle effects on the S-G2 phase?
Etoposide
What anticancer drugs have cell cycle effects on the G2-M phase?
Bleomycin
What anticancer drugs have cell cycle effects on the M phase?
1) Paclitaxel
2) Vinblastine
3) Vincristine
What type of chemotherapy is done in order to reduce the size of the primary tumor before surgical resection?
Neoadjuvant chemo
What type of chemotherapy is done after surgical resection in order to prevent relapse?
Adjuvant chemo
What is growth fraction?
Ratio of proliferating cells to G0 cells
As a general rule, antineoplastic agents are more effective on cells with what type of growth fraction?
High growth fraction
Why can solid tumors be more difficult to treat with chemotherapeutic agents?
Because their growth fraction decreases over time
Antineoplastic therapy follows what order of kinetics?
What does this mean?
1) First-order kinetics
2) Given dose of drug destroys constant fraction of cells
Why do we use high-dose intermittent chemotherapy?
Allows recovery of normal, healthy tissues
Primary/inherent resistance to anti-cancer drugs in the natural products category can be due to high baseline expression of what?
p-Glycoprotein
What do bone marrow, GI tract, hair follicles, oral mucosa and sperm forming cells all have in common in terms of cancer therapy?
They are are the major sites of toxicity due to being rapidly proliferating tissues (tissues with high growth fractions)
What pharmacologic agents help decrease adverse effects such as neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and anemia?
What is used to decrease emetogenic effects?
What is used to delay skeletal complications?
1) Hematopoietic agents
2) Serotonin receptor antagonist (ondansetron)
3) Bisphosphonates
What nitrogen mustard is the most widely used alkylating agent and one of the most emetogenic agents?
Cyclophosphamide
What is the MOA for alkylating agents?
Form covalent linkages with DNA
Because Cyclophosphamide is a pro-drug, what must activate it?
CYP2B
What is an adverse effect of cyclophosphamide?
What metabolite of CP causes it?
What can be given to inactivate the metabolite and is used for prophylaxis?
1) Hemorrhagic cystitis
2) Acrolein
3) Mesna
What are adverse effects of Cisplatin?
1) Renal tubular damage
2) Ototoxicity
What are the adverse effects of Busulfan?
Pulmonary fibrosis
Antimetabolites block or subvert pathways that are involved in, or lead to?
Cell replication (nucleotide and nucleic acid synthesis)
What is the MOA for methotrexate?
It inhibits dihydrofolate reductase and leads to reduction in dTMP
Methotrexate is an analog to what compound?
Folic acid
Administration of what drug is used in conjunction with high-dose methotrexate therapy to rescue normal cells? (also antidote for accidental drug overdose)
Leucovorin
Fluorouracil (5-FU) is a structural analog to what compound?
Pyrimidine