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Immunlogy Flashcards

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IBD treatments

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Azathioprine, ciclosporin, mercaptopurine, and methotrexate

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Folic and MTX

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Used to reduce MTX toxicity , given weekly on different day to MTX

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Antiproliferative drugs

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Azathioprine or mycophenolate

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Calcineurin inhibitors

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Ciclosporin or tacrolimus

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Other immunosupressantas

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Sirolimus or corticosteroids

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Corticosteroid immunosuppresent side effect

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Suppress clinical signs of infection and allow diseases such as septicaemia or tuberculosis

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What to give after severe chicken pox exposure

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Varicella–zoster immunoglobulin (VZIG)

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What to give after measles exposure

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Immunoglobulin

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What is azathioprine metabolised to

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Mercaptopurine

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When should azathioprine dose be reduced

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Allopurinol

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What antiproliferative drug has a more selective mode of action

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Azathioprine

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What corticosteroid has an antitumour effect

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Prednisolone

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Ciclosporin side effects

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Nephrotixic

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Ciclosporin indication

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Organ and tissue transplantation, for prevention of graft rejection following bone marrow, kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation, and for prophylaxis and treatment of graft-versus-host disease

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What calcineurin inhibitor is more neurotoxic

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Tacrolimus

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Sirolimus inhibitor

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Renal transplant

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Tacrolimus side effects

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Neurotoxic, cardiomyopathy, affects glucose metabolism, liver toxicity jaundice

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What is MS

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Chronic, immune-mediated, demyelinating inflammatory condition of the central nervous system, which affects the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord, and leads to progressive severe disability

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Relapsing-remitting MS

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Periods of exacerbation of symptoms and remission/stability

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What is secondary progressive MS

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Progressive disability unrelated to relapses occurs 6-10 years after onset, steadily worsens

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Active MS disease definition

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2 clinically significant releases in last 2 years

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Treating active MS disease

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Interferon beta, teriflunomide, dimethyl fumarate

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Drug MS treatment

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Interferon beta, glatiramer acetate, fingolimod and natalizumab, vit D

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Very active disease treatment

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Natalizumab alemtuzumab

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Secondary progressive MS treatment

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Interferon beta

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Chronic MS symptoms

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Neurological dysfunction, fatigue, spasticity, visual problems, and emotional lability

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Treating MS symptoms

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Stop smoking, methylprednisolone

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Treating MS fatigue/ impaired mobility

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Amantadine, exercise

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MS spasticity treatment

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Baclofen, gabapentin, dantrolene, tizanidine, cannabis

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MS emotional lability treatment

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Amitryptyline

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MS oscilopsia is/treatment

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Feeling like always moving, gabapentin, memantine

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Prostate cancer risk factors

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> 70 afro caribbean, obesity, family

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Prostate cancer symptoms

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Urinary outflow obstruction, or, pelvic or back pain due to bone metastases

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How is severity/treatment decided

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Baseline prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, tumour grade (Gleason score), the stage of the tumour, the patient’s life expectancy (based on age and comorbid conditions), treatment morbidity, and patient preference.

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Prostate cancer treatment

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Watchful waiting, active surveillance, prostatectomy, radiotherapy (such as external beam), brachytherapy, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy

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Prostate hormone therapy

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Anti-androgen or LHRH or gonadorelin antagonist or bilateral ochidectomy

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What should be given in conjunction to radical radiotherapy

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Androgen deprivation therapy

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Treating metastatic prostate cancer

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Chemo with docetaxel

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What to give to those hoping to maintain sexual function

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Bicalutamide

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Preventing skeletal events in metastatic prostate cancer

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Zoledronic acid

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What to give metastatic prostate cancer progresses after chemo

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Abiraterone with/or prednisolone and enzalutamide

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When to stop chemo for metastatic prostate cancer

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Alternative to LHRH treatment

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Bilateral orchidectomy

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LHRH Treatment

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Histrelin, triptorelin, goserelin, leuprolide

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Breast cancer risk factors

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Age, early onset of menstruation, late menopause, older age at first completed pregnancy, and a family history, HRT oral contraception

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LHRH stands for

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Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists

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What protects against breast cancer

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Physical activity, breast feeding

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Breast cancer types

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Non invasive =ductal carcinoma
Invasive = spread beyond ducts
Early stage = stage I/II
Locally advanced = stage III
And advanced = stage IV
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Aim of breast cancer treatment

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Reduce mortality, increase progression free and disease free survival and improve QoL

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Different forms of breast cancer treatment

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Surgery , radiotherapy ,adjuvant drug therapy, neoadjuvant drug therapy

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When is tamoxifen recommended

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Premenopausal women without history of increased thromboembolic disease or endometrial cancer

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When is anastrazole used

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Postmenopausal women without severe osteoporosis

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What breast cancer drug may lead to early meopause

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Drugs to stop in breast cancer

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Relieving menopausal symptoms

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SSRI for hot flushes in those not taking tamoxifen, or clonidine, venlafaxine and gabapentin

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When is tamoxifen recommended

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Tamoxifen is recommended for premenopausal women who do not have a history of, or increased risk of thromboembolic disease or endometrial cancer

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How long should chemoprevention be given

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When should chemoprevention be offered

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Given to all those at high risk

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Biological treatment in advanced breast cancer

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Trastuzumab and paclitaxel

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First line treatment in advanced breast cancer

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Adjuvant breast bisphosphonate therapy

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Zoledronic and sodium clodronate, improve disease-free survival and overall survival in postmenopausal women with node-positive invasive breast cancer

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Adjuvant biological breast treatment

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Trastuzumab if HER2 positive invasive

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Adjuvant endocrine breast therapy

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Tamoxifen as reducing oestrogen may reduce progression in premenopausal or aromatase inhibitor (zole-anastrazole) in post-menopausal

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Predictive factors

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(ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth receptor 2 (HER2) status of the primary tumour

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Alternative to radiotherapy

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Adjuvant endocrine therapy for minimum of 5 years

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Treatment of early / locally advanced breast cancer

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Surgery to breast/axillary lymph nodes with/without radiotherapy (if recurrence likely use) possibly followed by adjuvant drug therapy

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Cytotoxic side effects

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Extravasation, oral mucositis, tumour lysis syndrome, hyperuricemia, bone marrow suppression, alopecia, thromboembolism,

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What cancer drugs don’t cause bone marrow suppression

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Vincristine, bleomycin

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How should vincristine be used

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When is broad Abx needed for neutropenia

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Neutrophil count less than 1.06×10^9/litre

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When to prevent hyperuricaemia

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When chemo associated with acute renal failure

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Who is at risk of tumour lysis syndrome

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Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (especially if high grade and bulky disease), Burkitt’s lymphoma, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and acute myeloid leukaemia

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What commonly causes mucositis

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Fluorouracil, methotrexate, and the anthracyclines

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Mucositis prevention

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Oral hygiene (sucking ice when getting flurouracil infusion)

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Treating sore mouth/mucositis

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Saline mouthwash, anti-inflammatory/antiseptic mouthwash

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Cancer drugs causing permanent male sterility

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Alkylating drug/procarbazine

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Mildly emetogenic

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Fluorouracil, etoposide, methotrexate (<100mg/m2), the vinca alkaloids, and abdominal radiotherapy

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Moderately emetogenic

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Taxanes, doxorubicin hydrochloride, intermediate and low doses of cyclophosphamide, mitoxantrone, and high doses of methotrexate (0.1– 1.2 g/m2).

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Highly emetogenic

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Cisplatin, dacarbazine, and high doses of cyclophosphamide

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Treating low risk emesis

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Dexamethasone, lorazepam

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Treating high risk emesis

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5ht3 receptor antagonist + dexamethasone, aprepitant

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5ht3 receptor antagonis

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ondansetron, granisetron, dolasetron, and palonosetron

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Treating delayed CINV

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Metoclopramide, dexamethasone, rolapitant

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Anthracycline side effects

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Extravasation cardiotoxic

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Anthracycline drugs

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Doxorubicin, daunorubicin, epirubicin and idarubicin

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Folic acid uses

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Counteract folate antagonist action of methotrexate, used in methotrexate overdose

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Methotrexate side effects

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Liver toxicity (jaundice), GI toxicity (inflamed mouth) nausea, vomiting, blood disorder dyspnoea, cough, mucositis

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Folinic acid and tripethoprim

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Does not counteract antibacterial activity

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Why is folinic used with fluorouracil

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Better response rate in metastatic colorectal cancer

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Causes of cystitis

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oxazaphosphorines, cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide

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Treating cystitis/urothelial toxicity

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What cancer drugs shouldn’t be used with radiotherapy

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Anthracycline as increases toxicity

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Doxorubicin indications

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Acute leukaemia’s, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, paediatric malignancies, and some solid tumours including breast cancer.

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Vinca alkaloid indications

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Leukaemia’s, lymphomas, and some solid tumours

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Vinca examples and derivatives

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Vinca alkaloids, vinblastine sulfate, vincristine sulfate, and vindesine sulfate. Vinorelbine is a semi-synthetic vinca alkaloid. Involved in treatment of breast cancer.

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Vinca examples and derivative

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Vinca alkaloids, vinblastine sulfate, vincristine sulfate, and vindesine sulfate. Vinorelbine is a semi-synthetic vinca alkaloid. Involved in treatment of breast cancer.

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Alkylating mechanism

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Damage DNA so interfere with cell replication

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Cyclophosphamide indication

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Wide range of malignancies, including some leukaemias, lymphomas, and solid tumours, rheumatoid arthritis

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Cyclophosphamide side effects

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Agranulocytosis, alopecia, bone marrow CYSTITIS, decreased leucocytes fever haemorrhage, neutropenia, sperm abnormalities, thrombocytopenia

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Carmustine use

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Multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, Hodgkin’s disease, and brain tumour

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Estramustine use

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Used in prostate cancer

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Taxane example

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Paclitaxel, Docetaxel

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