Goofy Phrases for Remembering Flashcards
You read Aromatase Inhibitors, what are you thinking to remember the drugs?
“AI (aromatase inhibitor), I’ll have an ALE with you”
A = anastrazole
L = letrozole
E = exemestane
GnRH agonist drug. How do you remember that?
Two indications in that sentence too.
Ryan Gosling (for Goserelin acetate), makes girls breasts and boys prostates act up.
Used for breast and prostate cancer
Androgen Receptor Blockers aka Antiandrogens. How are you remembering the drugs here? Indication part of the sentence too.
Darol Eatza Apple with his friend Bical, because he has the Flu in his prostate
- Darolutamide
- Enzalutamide
- Apalutamide
- Bicalutamide
- Flutamide
Used for prostate
CYP17 inhibitor for prostate. Easy way to remember this drug
I need a beer to sip 17 times
A beer = abir = abiraterone
Anti-CD20 MABs. What are you thinking for drugs and indication?
The number 20 should make you think
“Robin $20 from you for Life”
R = rituximab
Obin = obinutuzumab
Life kind of sounds like lymph, using for lymphoma
Bifunctional antibody drug. Easy way to remember
Bifunctional = BLInatumomab
Bli and Bi sound similar enough
EGFR MABs. Sentence for drugs and indication?
Pani tu masz EGFR in the CRCity
Pani tu = panitumumab
Masz = MAB reminder
EGFR is obvious
CR = colorectal
City = sound similar to cetu = cetuximab
VEGF MAB name?
BeVacizumab
Not the best, but I guess it works
Beva sounds kind of like VEGuh for VEGF obvs.
Indications for bevacizumab?
Bevacizumab: Patients Can Overcome Cancer, Giving Life
P = prostate
C = colorectal
O = ovarian
C = cervical
G = glioblastoma
L = liver
Enfortumab indication easy. Also MOA in there too.
Playing Fortnite all day until I pee myself lol. LoL = ADC
Bladder, ADC = Nectin 4, easy.
TKI-EGFRs. Drugs and indication - go!
Drinking mErlot Allsummer so FAR. Getfit? Orfat? Either way lung cancer aint that
1. Erlot = erlotinib
2. Allsummer = osimertinib (sounds similar)
3. FAR = EGFR to remember which protein we’re hitting
4. Getfit = gefitinib
5. Orfat = afatinib
6. Lung cancer aint that rhymes with orfat so that works I guess
TKI-ALKs. Drugs? Indication?
ALK = Ahh! Lung Kancer! easy indication
ALK = ALB which = Alect Brigitte for the Lore
Alect = alectinib
Brigitte = brigitinib
Lore = lorlatinib
TKI-HER2. What are the drugs and indication?
Tuco is Near a breast and he wants to Lap HER2.
Kinda gross but whatever. Breast and HER2 is obviously easy to remember
Tuco = tucatinib
Near a = neratinib
Lap = lapatinib
TKI-VEGF inhibitors indication only.
See VEGF thinking vegetables, thinking “The Kidneys look like beans and liver for dinner.” Used in kidney and liver cancer obvs
TKI-VEGF drug names go.
VEGF? Askit a question. Son or Pesos?
Askit = axitinib
Son = sunitinib
Pesos = pazopanib
BRAF inhibitors somewhat easier to remember because they end in?
-fenib
BRAF drugs phrase? Indication kind of in there too
Vemura hit the Dab and they wanted a skinny Encore
1. Vemura = vemurafenib - yeah kind of just have to remember that
2. Dab = dabrafenib
3. Skinny = skin = melanoma
4. Encore = encorafenib
MEK inhibitors indication?
ME = melanoma (the K is also 1 letter off from L, so MEL)
Kind of shitty, but nothing else starts with an M so it works
MEK drug phrase is a good one.
Franky’s MECH consistss of TRAfalgar, Koby, and Bonney
MECH = MEK
TRA = trametinib
Koby = cobimetinib
Bonney = binimetinib
Also, notice how they end in -metinib not just -tinib (me for MEK i guess)
Proteasome inhibitor drugs and indication phrase.
Bort simpson, give me a Carfil and pickup Iza, you’ve got many miles to go ‘ma
1. Bort = bortezomib
2. Carfil = carfilzomib
3. Iza = ixazomib
4. many miles to go ‘ma sounds like multiple myeloma
PARP inhibitor drugs are pretty easy to remember. What’s the phrase?
Hola, I’m Near a PARK
1. Hola = olaparib
2. Near = niraparib - not to be confused with neratinib, but it’s easy because these ones end in -parib
To remember PARP inhibitor indications, just remember that they are a ___
BOP
Breast
Ovarian
Prostate
CDK4/6 inhibitors names and indication. Go! (Just remembering -ciclibs is kinda helpful for this to get you going)
Abe is ma Pal who I like to eat Breasts and Ribs with
1. Abe ma = abemaciclib
2. Pal = palbociclib
3. Breasts = breast cancer
4. Ribs = ribociclib
What is the BCL2 drug phrase?
To Beat CelL we need Vegeto
BCL = BCL2 duh. Also L2 sounds like leu, which is leukemia (CLL)
Vegeto sounds like veneto for venetoclax which is the drug
CTLA-4 inhibitor
Ipilimumab, idk, actually nothing for this one
PD-1 inhibitors?
Pass Da Pen bro? Never!
Pass Da = PD
Pen bro = pembrolizumab
Never = nivolumab
PD-L1 inhibitors?
Durwa! Ava Ate all my food and peed on L1
1. Durwa sounds like kurwa which is like durvalumab
2. Ava = avelumab
3. Ate = atezolizumab
4. Peed on L1 is PD-L1
