Pharm Ch. 43: Drugs Used To Treat Cancer – Flashcards

The administration of antineoplastic drugs after surgery or radiation therapy. The purpose of adjuvant chemo is to rid the body of any cancerous cells that were removed during the surgery or to treat any microscopic metastases that may be developing

Drugs used to treat nausea and vomiting

Non-cancerous tumor that grows slowly, does not metastasize and rarely requires drug treatment

A disorder of cell growth, life span, and death. It is a group of abnormal cells that generally proliferate(multiply) more rapidly than normal cells and lose their ability to perform specialized functions, invade surrounding tissues and develop growths in other tissues distant to the site of origin

An antineoplastic drug that is selectively toxic when the cell is in a specific phase of growth

Antineoplastic drugs that are active throughout the cells replication cycles and may be more effective against slowly proliferating neoplasticism tissue

Use of chemical agent to treat disease (antineoplastic drugs are used specifically to treat cancer)

Therapy using more than a single drug to exploit the varying evils of toxicity for the patients benefit

Refers to a disease that grows rapidly worse, becomes resistant to treatment and normally results in death

The spreading of a disease process from one part of the body remote from the site of the primary tumor; results from dissemination of the tumor cells by the lymphatic a or the blood vessels or subarachnoid spaces

Treatment aimed at the alleviation of symptoms (not curative)