Week 2 - Medications

Question 1

Chemotherapy

Answer 1

Non-selective cytotoxic drugs that target vital cellular or metabolic processes critical to both malignant and normal cell growth and replication.

Question 2

Adjuvant chemotherapy

Answer 2

Use of chemotherapy after local treatment.

Question 3

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Answer 3

Use of chemotherapy before definitive local control surgery or irradiation to decrease initial tumour size.

Question 4

Tamoxifen

Answer 4

Hormone therapy for breast cancer treatment (aims for cancer death by inhibiting or stopping the hormone production).

Question 5

Rituximab

Answer 5

Monoclonal antibodies (drugs that consist of antibodies produced to bind to specific antigens on the surface of cancerous cells, thereby destroying them.

Question 6

Brachytherapy

Answer 6

Treats with internally implanted radioactive seeds.

Question 7

Allopurinol

Answer 7

Prophylaxis for tumour lysis syndrome. Reduces uric acid level.