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Oncology 2 Flashcards

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What are trageted therapy?

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  • They inhibi specific pathways that are actiavted in cancer
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Targeted therapies have much more fewer ADRs than chemotherapies hwich are poisions. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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What can cause cancer?

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  • External mutagens e.g UV light and smoking
  • Internal mutagens e.g the enviornment
  • Intrisic errors - which are errors in the DNA replications
  • All these can lead to mutations and hence cancer
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Germline mutations are inherited. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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somatic mutations are individualised, but can be passed on during cell division. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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What genes are affected in cancer?

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  • Oncogenes and tumour supressor genes
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90% of cancer genes are dominant, 10% can be reccessive. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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What does the Knudoson 2 hit hypothesis say?

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  • You need mutations to occur at both reccesive genes to have cancer
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mutated cells (driver mutations) that lead to formation of tumours have a seletive advantage over the mutated cells that did not benefit from the mutation. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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What are passenger mutations?

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  • They have a null effect (neither advs or disadv), but they also be seen with driver mutations but in fewer numbers
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You can get resistance before treatment and resistance after treatment? TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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What kinase inhibitor drug was first shown to have efficacy in any cancer?

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  • Imitanib
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Nilotinib is 30 times more potent than imitanib. TRUE OR FLASE/

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TRUE

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What are the indications of imatinib, nilotinib and desatinib?

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  • All indicated for chronic myeloid leukemia

- Imatinib is indicated for GIST

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What are the ADRs for imatinib, nilotinib and desatinib?

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  • Cause myelosupression

- Nelotinib causes prolong QT interval

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Chronic myeloid leukemia are primarily driven by BcrABl. treu or false?

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true

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What do proto-oncogenes do?

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  • Regulate critical cancer relevant pathways
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Activation sof proto-oncogenes lead to the cancerous phenotype. true or flase?

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true

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proto-oncogenes are activated by somatic mutations. TRUE OR FLASE?

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TRUE

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Tumour supressors are ativated in cancer. TRUE OR FLASE?

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FALSE

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Drug targets are the regulators of the hallmark of cancer. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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22
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Cetuximab recognises the EGF-R
Trastuzumab recognises the HER2 receptor
True or flase?

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true

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-Gefitinib inhibits EGF-R
-Lapatinib inhibits EGF-R and HER2
TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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Gefitinib and elortinib both used for NSCLC. treu or flase?

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What is cetuximab and trastuzumab indicated for?

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  • Cetixumab: Colorectal cancer with the wild type K-ras

- Trastuzumab: breast cancer and gastric

26
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Gefitinib and elortinib are kinase inhibitors. treu or flase?

27
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Cetuximab and trastuzumab are monoclonal antibodies. TRUE OR FLASE?

28
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gefitinib, elortinib interact with drugs decreasing gastric pH which leads to the kinase inhibiotrs becoming insoluble. true or false?

29
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What is sorafenib indicated for?

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  • Hepocellular carcinoma
30
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what is the mechanism of action for sorafenib?

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  • It inhibits several kinases
31
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Verafenib and Dabrafenib are indicated for melanoma. TRUE OR FALSE?

32
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Everolimus is indicated for renal cancer. TRUE OR FALSE?

33
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what is the mechanism of action of Everolimus?

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  • Inhibits mTORC1 which regulates protein translation
34
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Palbocibid inhibits Cdk4/6 and is indicated for breats cancer. TRUE OR FALSE?

35
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What us bevacizumab indicated for?

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  • Colecteral
  • Breast
  • NSCLC
  • Renal cancer
36
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hwo does bevacizumab work?

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  • Sequestrates VEGF
37
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What is sunitib indicated for?

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  • GIST and Renal cancer
38
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Sunitib inhibits VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase. TRUE OR FALSE?

39
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What are some ADRs of sunitib?

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  • yellow skin discoloration
40
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Cancer cells are more sensitive to proteasome inhibition. TRUE OR FALSE?

41
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Proteosome protects the rest of the cell from degrading. true or flase?

42
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Give an example of a proteosome inhibitor drug?

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Bortezomib

43
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What is bortezomib indicated for?

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  • multiple Myeloma
44
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Name a DNA damage repair inhibitor?

45
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Olaparib a PARP inhibitor. true or false?

46
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olaparib kills BRCA null cells. true or false?

47
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what is synthetic lethality?

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  • combinding the factors leads to cell death
48
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combindding olaparib and BRCA null cells leads to cell death. true or false?

49
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Single strand DNA damage repair pathay depend upon PARP. true or false?

50
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Epigenic regulation is Covalent modifiation of histones and DNA that alter gene expression via mutations, amolification and deletion. TRUE OR FALSE?

51
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There are different residues within the histones that can become methylated or acetylated. TRUE OR FALSE?

52
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What are CpG island?

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  • Region in genome enriched in CG nucleotide repeats
53
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If CgP genes become methylated this silences the gene expression
If not methylated thet promote gene expression leading to transcription. TRUE OR FALSE?

54
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How does Decitabine a demethylating agent work?

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  • Inhibits methylation of cytosines
55
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vismodegib a hedgehog pathway is teratogenic. TRUE OR FALSE?

56
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Ipilimab is a monoclonal antibody against CTLA4. true or false?

57
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Ipilimab is teratogenic. true or false?

58
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Rituximab is a non-hogkins indicated with B cell malignancies. true or false?

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