ILOs
- Understand classification of anti-cancer chemotherapy
- Discuss examples of successful anti-cancer drugs, mode of action and appreciate implications of genetic diversity for cancer treatment
- Outline the fundamental, special characteristics of cancer cells
- Describe the treatment options available for cancer…
- Do we just use one treatment option… or, can we use multiple?
- How many cells emerge from a single cancer cell after 30 cell divisions?
- How does a normal cell become cancerous?
- What are the defences does the body have for cancer?
- How many different chemotherapy drugs are there, and what’s their effect generally?
- Despite all the innovation and research gone into cancer treatment… what are anti-cancer drugs generally not able to do?
- List the general toxic effects of chemotherapy…
- In a dividing cell population, are all the cells undergoing mitosis at one time?
- Explain how being in different phases of the cell cycle affects sensitivity to chemotherapy drugs…
- Outline the different components of solid tumours…
- Why do we have the mindset of aiming for total kill of cancer cells with chemotherapy… but what’s the downside with this?
Chemotherapy Drugs
The main classes of chemotherapy drugs are…
Alkylating agents