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Uncontrolled growth of new tissue |
Neoplasia |
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A solid mass of tissue that forms when abnormal cell groups together |
Tumor |
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the capability of invading surrounding tissues and moving to distant location in the body in a process of malignant tumors |
Metastasis |
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refers to drugs that are used to kill cells and includes both antibiotic and agents used in the treatment of cancer |
Chemotherapy |
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refers exclusively to anti cancer agents |
Antineoplastics |
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It is a group of diseases and these have been traditionally grouped together based on the organ which cancer originate |
Cancer |
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What is the primary risk factor of cancer? |
Age. as cell damaged over time |
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what do you call the gene producing cancer? |
Oncogenes |
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What is the precursor of oncogenes? |
Proto-oncogenes |
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True or false: Oncogenes are not normally present in the genome |
True |
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It is a kind of tumor that is not cancerous |
Benign Tumor |
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A kind of tumor that is cancerous and invades surrounding tissues |
Malignant tumors |
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-A total eradication of cancer cell -Lower tumor cell burden at which level hosts immunilogical defenses may keep the cells in controll |
Curative |
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-Alleviation of symptoms, decreases tumor size, control growth -Avoidance of life threatening toxicity -Increased patient survival and improves quality of life |
Palliative |
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An attempt to eradicate microscopic cancer after surgery |
Adjuvant Therapy |
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An attempt to get a patient into remission, after previous therapies have failed |
Salvage Chemotherapy |
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Chemotherapy is given to decrease the tumor burden before definitive therapy (surgery, radiation) |
Neoadjuvant |
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Oncologists prefer to use what term that indicates a patient with no evidence of disease after treatment? |
Remission |
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According to the log kill hypothesis, chemotherapeutic agents kills a constant? rather than? after? |
Kills constant Fraction of cell rather than a specific number if cells after each dose |
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During the entire cycle, movement from one phase to the next is driven by proteins known as? and associated with? |
Cyclins Cyclin-dependent Kinase (CDK) |
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True or False: The development of half of all cancers is thought to result from misfolding of P53 |
True |
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Guardian of the cell It functions as transcriptor factor and may activate genes The products which are involved in the repair of DNA |
P53 |
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Too severe damage of Cell/DNA result to what? |
P53 direct the cell to die (Apoptosis) |
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The ability of some cells to synthesize their own growth factor |
Autocrine signaling |
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Oncogene: ETS Oncogene product: ? Associated human Cancer: ? |
Oncogene: ETS Oncogene product: Transcription factor Associated Human cancer: Leukemia |
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Oncogene: RAS Oncogene product: ? Associated human Cancer: ? |
Oncogene: RAS Oncogene product: G-protein Associated human Cancer: Ovarian, bladder, lung cancer |
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Oncogene: RAF Oncogene product: ? Associated human Cancer: ? |
Oncogene: RAF Oncogene product: Serine-Threonine kinase Associated human Cancer: Bladder |
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Oncogene: KIT Oncogene product: ? Associated human Cancer: ? |
Oncogene: KIT Oncogene product: Receptor tyrosine kinase Associated human Cancer: Colon |
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Oncogene: SIS Oncogene product: ? Associated human Cancer: ? |
Oncogene: SIS Oncogene product: Growth factor Associated human Cancer: various |
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Oncogene: TP53 Oncogene product: ? Associated human Cancer: ? |
Oncogene: TP53 Oncogene product: Trascription factor (p53) Associated human Cancer: Various |
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Log kill hypothesis is what order of kinetics? |
First order kinetics |
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Class of drugs that are capable of forming covalent bonds with important biomolecules |
Alkylating agent |
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The major targets of drug action are the nucleophilic groups |
The major targets of drug action are the nucleophilic groups. Most common is the N-7 position of guanine |
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Alkylation of DNA leads to? |
Cell death |
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Our body deactivates the alkylation activity through? |
Alcohol and Aldehyde dehydrogenase with the help of glutathione |
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Are compounds that are chemically similar to sulfur mustard or mustard gas developed |
Nitrogen Mustard |
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Nitrogen mustard was developed during? |
World war 1 |
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Nitrogen mustard initial use was |
as Warts remover |
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The term “mustard" comes from the similarity in the blisters produced by the compound and those seen upon exposure to |
Oil of black mustard seed |
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1 mustard molecules can alkylate how many nucleophile? |
2 nucleophiles |
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The initial acid base reaction is necessary to release the lone pair ofelectrons on nitrogen, which subsequently displaces chloride togive the highly reactive aziridinium |
Aziridinium cation |
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10mg vials (IV) administration of Mechlorethamine can use as the treatment of what disease? |
Hodgkins lymphoma |
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In cases of extravasation (drug escapes from the tumor intothe underlying tissue), the antidote for mechlorethamine is? |
Sodium thiosulfate |
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Nitrogen mustard that can be taken orally |
Chlorambucil Melfalan |
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Cyclophosphamide is a drug used to what cancer? |
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia Acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
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Active part of Cyclophosphamide |
Phospharamide mustard |
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Toxic part of Cyclophophamide |
Acrolein |
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Cyclophosphamide hydroxylation in what part of the body? |
Liver |
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Concentrates the electrophilic substance in the kidney and conjugates acrolein |
MESNA |
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MESNA complete name |
2-Mercaptoethane sulfonate |
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Ifosfamide's S-isomer undergoes preferential oxidation of the side chain to give N-dechloroethylation, which removes the ability of the agent to cross link DNA and also produces what? |
Neurotoxic and Urotoxic chloroacetaldehyde |
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Describe ethyleneimine sequence |
Thiotepa----(Desulfuration)----Tepa----Aziridine (To monoalkylate DNA) |
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alternative to utilizing aziridines as electrophilic species |
Busulfan |
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Bulsufan's 2mg tablet orally or 10ml vial for IV is treatment for? |
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) |
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Cisplastin was discovered by? |
Barnett Rosenberg |
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what microorganism cell is used with ammonium chloride solution had an electrical current appliedthrough platinum electrodes |
Escherichia coli |
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Once the drug is inside the tumor cell, the drug encounters a lower chlorideconcentration and one chloro group is substituted by a water molecule in aprocess known as?
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Aquation |
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name the ff. |
Cisplatin Carboplatin Oxaliplatin Satraplatin |
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organometallic compounds based on platinum that play a central role inmany cancer treatments protocols. |
Organoplatinum |
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Carmustine BCNU |
Bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea |
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LOMUSTINE CCNU |
Chloroethyl-Cyclohexyl nitrosourea) |
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treatment for metastatic cancer and hodgkins lymphoma |
Lomustin |
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availablein 1 g vials for IV administration in thetreatment of metastatic islet cell carcinoma ofthe pancreas, colon cancer, and Hodgkin’sdisease |
Streptozocin |
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Cytarabine is isolated from what? |
Cryptothethya crypta |
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used to treat breast cancer and colorectalcancer |
Capecitabine |
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used to treat bladder cancer, breast cancer,pancreatic cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) Potent radiosensitizer, and it increases thecytotoxicity of cisplatin |
Gemticabine |
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the treatment of lymphoblastic leukemia, acutelymphocytic leukemia, and Crohn’s disease |
Mercaptopurine |
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BROAD SPECTRUM ANTI NEOPLASTIC involves inhibition of DHFRleading to a depletion of critically reduced folates |
Methotrexate (MTX) |
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Was designed to block the conversation of uridine to thymidine |
5-Fluoroucil (5-FU) |
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The replacement of the hydrogen at the 5-Fluoroucil with fluorine result in an antimetabolite drug, leading to the formation of a stable of a stable covalent ternary complex composed of? |
5-Fluorouracil, Thymidilate synthase, and cofactor tetrahydrofolate spp. |