WorksheetsAnticancer for fundamental
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
To improve the quality of life of a terminal cancer patient
Which is the appropriate goal of using anticancer treatments?
Adjuvant treatment
Neoadjuvant treatment
Palliative treatment.
Curative treatment.
Which is the best treatment modality to treat solid tumours
radiation
use of chemotherapy anticancer drugs
surgery
immunotherapy
To use anticancer combinations which is the most appropriate reason
to reduce toxic effects to healthy tissues.
to suppress anticancer drug resistance.
to reduce distant metastasis.
to increase cancer cell kill
Cisplatin is
a taxane
is a cell cycle specific drug
is a cell cycle nonspecific drug
is an anthracycline.
methotrexate
is a cell cycle non specific drug.
is an alkylating agent.
is an antimetabolite.
is a taxane.
Alkylating agents exert cytotoxic action by
DNA strand scission
Cross linking of DNA strands
Abnormal pairing of purine and pyrimidine bases
DNA damage
Which of the following anticancer drug (s) is a mitotic inhibitor and causes metaphase arrest.
Paclitaxel
Vincristine
Methotrexate
5-FU
Which of the following is appropriate use of GM-CSF to manage adverse effects of anticancer drugs?
To enhance antitumour activity of the drug.
To hasten recovery from myelosuppression.
To prevent hypersensitivity reactions to the drug.
To prevent nephrotoxic effects.
Which of the following are considered specific adverse effect of Doxorubicin?
Nephrotoxicity
Hepatotoxicity
Cardiotoxicity
Haemorrhagic cystitis
vinblastine is a plant based anticancer drug belonging to
taxanes.
podophyllotoxins.
vinca
camptothecin
