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Chemotherapy Flashcards

1
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Includes _______ drugs and hormone _____

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  • Anticancer

- therapy

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2
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Hormone therapy:

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  • Some tumors require hormones for growth
  • Some tumors are inhibited by hormones
  • Corticosteroids
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Some tumors require hormones for growth:

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Hormone dependent and will regress temporarily if deprived of their hormone

  • prostate tumors require testosterone and are inhibited by the removal of the testes or by administration of estrogen (blocking the effect of testosterone)
  • Some great cancers can be temporarily controlled
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Some tumors are inhibited by hormones

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Some great carcinomas in postmenopausal women are inhibited by estrogen

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Corticosteroids can inhibit:

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Growth of many tumors by inhibiting protein synthesis which suppresses growth and division of tumor cells

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Side effects: Hormone therapy

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  • Hot flashes
  • sweating
  • Impotence
  • Decreased libido
  • Nausea & vomiting
  • Blood dyscrasias: pathological/abnormal elements in blood (with tamoxifen teats advanced breast cancer)
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Anticancer drugs

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Alkylating agents
Antimetabolites
Antitumor Antibodies
Plant alkaloids

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Alkylating agents:

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React with DNA and inhibit cell division by biding DNA strands together

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Antimetabolites:

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resemble essential compounds required for cell growth but cannot be utilized by the cell so the metabolic process is disrupted

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Antitumor Antibodies:

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Bind with DNA and interfere with DNA-dependent RNA synthesis.

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Plant alkaloids:

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Disrupt mitosis

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12
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Used to (anticancer drugs)

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  • Induce regression of tumor and its metastasis
  • Adjunct to surgery or radiation
  • Control residual disease
  • Relieve pain
  • Relieve other symptoms
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Side effects: (Anticancer drugs)

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Can cause transient change in normal tissues especially rapidly proliferating cells

  • Depress bone marrow
  • Irritate GI epithelial cells
  • Destroy cells of hair follicles & skin
  • pain during administration
  • venous sclerosis
  • Extravasated
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Depress bone marrow:

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  • Anemia
  • Leukopenia
  • Thrombocytopenia: abnormally low blood clotting platelets (reduced)
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Irritated gastrointestinal epithelial cells:

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  • Ulceration
  • Bleeding
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
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Destroy cells of hair follicles and skin:

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  • Alopecia: hair loss/baldness

- Dermatitis: skin inflammation

17
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Pain during administration:

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just know its a side effects

18
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Venous sclerosis:

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Hardening of tissue

19
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If extraverted:

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(Let/force fluid from vessel) especially with deep cutaneous necrosis

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