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Uncontrolled growth of new tissue

Neoplasia

A solid mass of tissue that forms when abnormal cell groups together

Tumor

the capability of invading surrounding tissues and moving to distant location in the body in a process of malignant tumors

Metastasis

refers to drugs that are used to kill cells and includes both antibiotic and agents used in the treatment of cancer

Chemotherapy

refers exclusively to anti cancer agents

Antineoplastics

It is a group of diseases and these have been traditionally grouped together based on the organ which cancer originate

Cancer

What is the primary risk factor of cancer?

Age.



as cell damaged over time

what do you call the gene producing cancer?

Oncogenes

What is the precursor of oncogenes?

Proto-oncogenes

True or false:



Oncogenes are not normally present in the genome

True

It is a kind of tumor that is not cancerous

Benign Tumor

A kind of tumor that is cancerous and invades surrounding tissues

Malignant tumors

-A total eradication of cancer cell


-Lower tumor cell burden at which level hosts immunilogical defenses may keep the cells in controll

Curative

-Alleviation of symptoms, decreases tumor size, control growth


-Avoidance of life threatening toxicity


-Increased patient survival and improves quality of life

Palliative

An attempt to eradicate microscopic cancer after surgery

Adjuvant Therapy

An attempt to get a patient into remission, after previous therapies have failed

Salvage Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is given to decrease the tumor burden before definitive therapy (surgery, radiation)

Neoadjuvant

Oncologists prefer to use what term that indicates a patient with no evidence of disease after treatment?

Remission

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

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)

True or False:



The development of half of all cancers is thought to result from misfolding of P53

True

Guardian of the cell



It functions as transcriptor factor and may activate genes



The products which are involved in the repair of DNA

P53

Too severe damage of Cell/DNA result to what?

P53 direct the cell to die (Apoptosis)

The ability of some cells to synthesize their own growth factor

Autocrine signaling

Oncogene: ETS


Oncogene product: ?


Associated human Cancer: ?

Oncogene: ETS


Oncogene product: Transcription factor


Associated Human cancer: Leukemia

Oncogene: RAS


Oncogene product: ?


Associated human Cancer: ?

Oncogene: RAS


Oncogene product: G-protein


Associated human Cancer: Ovarian, bladder, lung cancer

Oncogene: RAF


Oncogene product: ?


Associated human Cancer: ?

Oncogene: RAF


Oncogene product: Serine-Threonine kinase


Associated human Cancer: Bladder

Oncogene: KIT


Oncogene product: ?


Associated human Cancer: ?

Oncogene: KIT


Oncogene product: Receptor tyrosine kinase


Associated human Cancer: Colon

Oncogene: SIS


Oncogene product: ?


Associated human Cancer: ?

Oncogene: SIS


Oncogene product: Growth factor


Associated human Cancer: various

Oncogene: TP53


Oncogene product: ?


Associated human Cancer: ?

Oncogene: TP53


Oncogene product: Trascription factor (p53)


Associated human Cancer: Various

Log kill hypothesis is what order of kinetics?

First order kinetics

Class of drugs that are capable of forming covalent bonds with important biomolecules

Alkylating agent

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

Alkylation of DNA leads to?

Cell death

Our body deactivates the alkylation activity through?

Alcohol and Aldehyde dehydrogenase with the help of glutathione

Are compounds that are chemically similar to sulfur mustard or mustard gas developed

Nitrogen Mustard

Nitrogen mustard was developed during?

World war 1

Nitrogen mustard initial use was

as Warts remover

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

1 mustard molecules can alkylate how many nucleophile?

2 nucleophiles

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

10mg vials (IV) administration of Mechlorethamine can use as the treatment of what disease?

Hodgkins lymphoma

In cases of extravasation (drug escapes from the tumor intothe underlying tissue), the antidote for mechlorethamine is?

Sodium thiosulfate

Nitrogen mustard that can be taken orally

Chlorambucil Melfalan

Cyclophosphamide is a drug used to what cancer?

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia


Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Active part of Cyclophosphamide

Phospharamide mustard

Toxic part of Cyclophophamide

Acrolein

Cyclophosphamide hydroxylation in what part of the body?

Liver

Concentrates the electrophilic substance in the kidney and conjugates acrolein

MESNA

MESNA complete name

2-Mercaptoethane sulfonate

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

Describe ethyleneimine sequence

Thiotepa----(Desulfuration)----Tepa----Aziridine (To monoalkylate DNA)

alternative to utilizing aziridines as electrophilic species

Busulfan

Bulsufan's 2mg tablet orally or 10ml vial for IV is treatment for?

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)

Cisplastin was discovered by?

Barnett Rosenberg

what microorganism cell is used with ammonium chloride solution had an electrical current appliedthrough platinum electrodes

Escherichia coli

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?

Aquation

name the ff.

name the ff.

Cisplatin


Carboplatin


Oxaliplatin


Satraplatin

organometallic compounds based on platinum that play a central role inmany cancer treatments protocols.

Organoplatinum

Carmustine BCNU

Bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea

LOMUSTINE CCNU

Chloroethyl-Cyclohexyl nitrosourea)

treatment for metastatic cancer and hodgkins lymphoma

Lomustin

availablein 1 g vials for IV administration in thetreatment of metastatic islet cell carcinoma ofthe pancreas, colon cancer, and Hodgkin’sdisease

Streptozocin

Cytarabine is isolated from what?

Cryptothethya crypta

used to treat breast cancer and colorectalcancer

Capecitabine

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

the treatment of lymphoblastic leukemia, acutelymphocytic leukemia, and Crohn’s disease

Mercaptopurine

BROAD SPECTRUM ANTI NEOPLASTIC




involves inhibition of DHFRleading to a depletion of critically reduced folates

Methotrexate (MTX)

Was designed to block the conversation of uridine to thymidine

5-Fluoroucil (5-FU)

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.