Five primary groups of Chemotherapy medications

Question 1

are most effective when a cancer cell is its resting phase and not actively dividing

Answer 1

alkylating agents

Question 2

work as cancer cells divide. As the name implies, this class of chemotherapy drugs derives from plants.

Answer 2

Plant Alkaloid

Question 3

are derived from fungi and work at many different phase of cancer cell’s life cycle

Answer 3

Antitumor antibiotics

Question 4

mimic components of cancer cells and work at specific phases of a cancer cell’s life cycle to disrupt its ability to divide.

Answer 4

Antimetabolites

Question 5

mimic components of cancer cells and work at specific phases of a cancer cell’s life cycle to disrupt its ability to divide.

Answer 5

Antimetabolites

Question 6

act by weakening the structure of a cancer cell that is necesssary for it to divide.

Answer 6

Topoisomerase inhibitors