Targeted Therapy in Cancer

Question 1

average age of diagnosis if chronic myeloid leukaemia

Answer 1

65

Question 2

survival rate of CML at 5 years

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60%

Question 3

what is chronic myeloid leukaemia

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Cancer of bone marrow (myeloid cells)

Question 4

an AR signalling inhibitor that directly targets three stages of the AR

Answer 4

Enzalutamide

Question 5

3 angiogenesis stimulators

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VEGF

FGF

PDGF

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main treatment of CML

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Imatinib

Question 7

how does imatinib work

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drug which inhibits Abl

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3 drugs that inhibit angiogenesis

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Sunitinib (‘Sutent’)

Pazopanib (‘Votrient’)

Axitinib (‘Inlyta’)

Question 9

3 problems with precision medication

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1. We don’t have a targeted drug for most patients
2. Cancer isn’t usually a single mutation disease
3. To understand the current tumour, we need to perform biopsies

Question 10

‘old fashioned’ cytotoxic drug working in many common tumours

Answer 10

Docetaxel

Question 11

side effect of Docetaxel

Answer 11

bone marrow suppression 


Question 12

first treatment for metastatic PC

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Castration therapy

Question 13

drugs can’t target a specific process in an aberrant signalling pathway - true or false

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false

Question 14

what is personalised medicine

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Targeting specific groups of patients using targeted therapies

Question 15

Oncogenes (eg. Kinases) cause pathways to be

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overactive

Question 16

Tumour suppressor genes don’t work because they

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are missing circuit components

Question 17

clonal

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Some mutations were present throughout individual tumour

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subclonal

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Some mutations only present in a subset of copies

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Advantages of newer targeted treatments

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More selective for cancer cells

Less selective for normal cells

Question 20

in the stroma, which kinase results in renal cancer

Answer 20

VEGF receptor kinases

Question 21

in cancer cells, which mutation results in melanoma

Answer 21

Raf kinase mutations

MAP kinase

Question 22

in cancer cells, which mutation results in lung cancer

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EGF receptor kinase mutations

ALK kinase mutations

Question 23

in cancer cells, which mutation results in gastro-intesinal stromal tumours

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Kit kinase mutations

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in cancer cells, which mutation results in breast cancer

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Her2

Question 25

in cancer cells, which mutation results in medullary thyroid cancers

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Ret kinase mutations

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in cancer cells, which mutation results in myelodysplastic syndrome

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JAK kinase mutations

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how to tumours become desensitised to imatinib

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Kinase mutations emerge which are no longer sensitive to imatinib

Question 28

2 molecular markers in medicine

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predictive markers prognostic markers

Question 29

example of predictive marker

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EGFR mutations in lung cancer

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example of prognostic markers

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CTCs in breast cancer

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