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ANTI ~ CANCER DRUGS. Zenaida N. Maglaya, MD, FPSECP. CANCER. is a disease in which there in uncontrolled multiplication & spread within the body of abnormal forms of the body’s own cells. Special Characteristics of Cancer Cells. Uncontrolled Proliferation
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ANTI ~ CANCER DRUGS Zenaida N. Maglaya, MD, FPSECP
CANCER • is a disease in which there in uncontrolled multiplication & spread within the body of abnormal forms of the body’s own cells.
Special Characteristics of Cancer Cells • Uncontrolled Proliferation • Dedifferentiation and loss of function • Invasiveness • Metastasis
Management of Cancer • Surgical • Irradiation • Chemotherapy
DIFFEREN-TIATION Mitosis M G0 Pre-Synthetic G1 Post –Synthetic G2 Synthetic S
ALKYLATING AGENTS Busulfan Carmustine Cyclophosphamide Lomustine Mechlorethamine Melphalan Thiothepa ANTHRACYCLINES Daunorubicin Doxorubicin Epirubicin Idarubicin Mitoxantrone ANTI TUMOR ANTIBIOTICS Dactinomycin Mitomycin Cell Cycle Non – Specific (CCNS) Agents • CAMPTOTHECINS • Irinotecan • Topotecan • PLATINUM ANALOGS • Carboplatin • Cisplatin • Oxaliplatin
ANTIMETABOLITES Capecitabine Cladribine Cytarabine Fluorouracil Gemcitabine Mercaptopurine Methotrexate Thioguanine ANTITUMOR ANTIBIOTIC Bleomycin EPIPODOPHYLLO- TOXINS Etoposide Teniposide TAXANES Docetaxel Paclitaxel Cell Cycle Specific (CCS) Agents • VINCA ALKALOIDS • Vinblastine • Vincristine • Vinorelbine
CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS I. CYTOTOXIC AGENTS A. ALKYLATING AGENTS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS • form covalents bonds with DNA • impede DNA replication B. ANTIMETABOLITES • block or subvert one or more of the metabolic pathways involved in DNA synthesis
CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS C. CYTOTOXIC ANTIBIOTICS • microbial in origin • prevent cell division D. PLANT DERIVATIVES • affect microtubules and formation of mitotic spindle
CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS II. HORMONES • suppress hormone secretion • antagonize hormone action III. MISCELLANEOUS AGENTS
POLYFUNCTIONAL ALKYLATING AGENTS B. NITROSOUREA • CARMUSTINE(BNCU) 2. SEMUSTINE (methyl CCNU) 3.LOMUSTINE( CCNU) 4.STREPTOZOCIN A. NITROGEN MUSTARD 1. CYCLOPHOPHAMIDE 2. CHLORAMBUCIL 3. MECHLORETHAMINE 4. IFOSFAMIDE 5. MELPHALAN 6. ESTRAMUSTINE
POLYFUNCTIONAL ALKYLATING AGENTS C.ALKYL SULFONATE 1. BUSULFAN D.AZIRIDINE 1. THIOTEPA E. TREOSULPHAN
RELATED DRUGS PROBABLY ACTING AS ALKYLATING AGENTS • PROCARBAZINE • CISPLATIN • DACARBAZINE • CARBOPLATIN • ALTRETAMINE
ANTIMETABOLITES A. FOLATE ANTAGONIST 1. METHOTREXATE B. PURINE ANTAGONIST 1. MERCAPTOPURINE 4. FLUDARABINE 2. THIOGUANINE 5. PENTOSTATIN 3. CLADRIBINE C. PYRIMIDINE ANTAGONIST 1. FLUOROURACIL 3. CYTARABINE 2. CAPECITABINE 4. GEMCITABINE
PLANT ALKALOIDS 1. VINBLASTINE 2. VINCRISITNE 3. VINORELBINE 4. PODOPHYLLOTOXINS (ETOPOSIDE & TENIPOSIDE) 5. CAMPTOTHECINS (TOPOTECAN & IRINOTECAN) 6. TAXANES (PACLITAXEL & DOCETAXEL)
ANTIBIOTICS 1. ANTHRACYCLINES(DOXORUBICIN & DAUNORUBICIN) 2. DACTINOMYCIN(ACTINOMYCIN D) 3. PLICAMYCIN(METHRAMYCIN 4. MITOMYCIN (MITOMYCIN C) 5. BLEOMYCIN 6. EPIRUBICIN 7. MITOZANTRONE
HORMONAL AGENTS A. ADRENOCORTICOIDS 1. PREDNISONE 2. HYDROCORTISONE B. ANDROGENS 1. TESTOSTERONE 2.FLUOXYMESTERONE C. ESTROGENS 1. DIETHYLSTILBESTROL 2. ETHINYL ESTRADIOL D. PROGESTINS 1. HYDROXYPROGESTERONE 2.MEDROXYPROGESTERONE
HORMONAL AGENTS E. ESTROGEN INHIBITOR : 1. TAMOXIFEN 2. TORIMIFENE F. ANDROGEN INHIBITOR 1. FLUTAMIDE 2.CYPROTERONE
HORMONAL AGENTS G. GONADOTROPIC RELEASING HORMONE AGONIST (GnRH) 1. LEUPROLIDE 2. GOSERELIN 3. NAFERELIN H. AROMATASE INHIBITORS 1. AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE & TRILOSTANE 2. ANASTROZOLE 3. LETROZOLE 4.EXEMESTANE
MISCELLANEOUS ANTI - CANCER DRUGS • ASPARAGINASE (CRISANTASPASE) 2. HYDROXYUREA 3. MITOTANE 4.AMSACRINE 5. RETINOID ACID DERIVATAIVES: TRETINOIN & ISOTRETINOIN
MISCELLANEOUS ANTI - CANCER DRUGS 6. BONE MARROW GROWTH FACTORS • GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR (G-CSF, FILGRASTIM) • GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR (GM-CSF, SARGAMOSTIM) • AMI FOSTINE (ETHYOL)
MISCELLANEOUS ANTI - CANCER DRUGS • MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES 1. RIFUXIMAB 2. TRASTUZUMAB • RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES • RADIOACTIVE IODINE-TREATMENT OF THYROID CA BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIER * INTERFERONS, ALDESLEUKIN, TRETINOIN
ALKYLATING AGENTS I. PHARMACOKINETICS • oral or parenteral administration • hepatic microsome P450 mediated cyclophosphamide ACROLEIN…….MESNA • nitrosoureas: highly lipid soluble • unchanged form in urine (cisplatin) • terminated via hepatic metabolism: procarbazine
II. PHARMACODYNAMICS OF ALKYLATING AGENTS • CCNS • Form reactive molecules…> alkylation (N7 guanine)………> • Cross linking of bases, abnormal base pairing & DNA strand breakage RESISTANCE THRU: increased DNA repair decrease drug permeability production of trapping agents
ALKYLATING AGENTS III. CLINICAL INDICATIONS A. CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE: non Hodgskin’s lymphoma, breast & ovarian CA, neuroblastoma B. MECHLORETHAMINE: Hodgskin ‘s disease (MOPP) C. CARMUSTINE & LOMUSTINE: brain tumors D. BUSULFAN: chronic myelogenous leukemia
IV. ADVERSE EFFECTS OF ALKYLATING AGENTS • Myelosuppression/ N & V • hemorrhagic cystitis (cyclophosphamide) • peripheral neuropathy (altretamine)) • adrenal insufficiency, pulmonary fibrosis & skin pigmentation (busulfan)
RELATED DRUGS PROBABLY ACTING AS ALKYLATING AGENTS • PROCARBAZINE • in Hodgkin’s lymphoma • leukemogenic, teratogenic, mutagenic • N & V, myelosyppression, hemolytic anemia, pulmonary reaction, disulfiram like,skin rashes, CNS depression
B.CISPLATIN: • inorganic metal complex • In testicular CA, bladder, lung & ovary CA • Nausea, vomiting, myelosuppression • Nephrotoxicity, neurotoxocity,ototoxicity, anaphylaxis
.METHOTREXATE PHARMACODYNAMICS • Inhibits dihydrofolate reductase…………..> • INTERFERES w/ thymidylate & purine nucleotide • …> DNA synthesis & cell division block RESISTANCE: • 1. decrease drug accumulation • 2.change in drug sensitivity or activity of dihydrofolate reductase • 3. decrease formation of polyglutamates
METHOTREXATE PHARMACOKINETICS: Oral, IV. IM, intrathecal CLINICAL USE: choriocarcinoma, acute leukemias, nonHodgskins and cutaneous T cell lymphomas, breast CA; rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis & abortifacient ADVERSE EFFECTS; N & V & D, mucositis • bone marrow suppression ; skin effects • reduced by folinic acid (leukoverin rescue) • enhance by salicylates, NSAID, sulfonamides, sulfonylureas
MERCAPTOPURINE (6 MP) & THIOGUANINE (6 TG) • 6 THIOINOSINIC ACID….activated by hypoxanthine - guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT)….> • inhibit enzymes involved in purine metabolism RESISTANCE: • decrease HGPRT activity • increase alkaline phosphatases that inactivate the toxic nucleotides
MERCAPTOPURINE (6 MP) & THIOGUANINE (6 TG) PHARMACOKINETCS: oral; urine • 6MP metabolism inhibited by allopurinol CLINICAL INDICATIONS • acute leukemias ; chronic myelocytic leukemias ADVERSE EFFECTS: • myelosuppression, immunosuppression, hepatotoxicity
FLUOROURACIL ( 5FU) • Uracil, interferes with DTMP • ( 5 FDUMP)………..> thymidylate synthase….> “thymineless death”………..> DNA synthesis inhibition RESISTANCE: • decreased activation of 5 FU • increased thymidylate synthase activity • reduce drug sensitivity of this enzyme
FLUOROURACIL ( 5FU) PHARMACOKINETICS : IV • widely distributed; hepatic metabolism CLINICAL USES: colorectal, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, liver, bladder, breast, head and neck, liver & ovarian cancers • topical: keratoses & basal cell cancer ADVERSE EFFECTS: myelosuppression, GIT effects & alopecia, hand & foot syndrome, neurotoxicity
CYTARABINE (ARA-C) • activated to Ara CTP (inhibitor of DNA polymerase) • most S specific RESISTANCE • 1.decreased uptake • 2. decreased conversion to Ara CTP CLINICAL USE: acute leukemias ADVERSE EFFECTS: myelosuppression & GIT irritation; neurotoxicity & peripheral neuritis
A. VINBLASTINE & VINCRISTINE * Periwinkle plant • spindle poisons • prevent assembly of tubulin dimmers into microtubules • block formation of mitotic spindle • act on M phase • RESISTANCE: increase efflux of the drug PHARMACOKINETICS • Parenterally • Hepatic metabolism
A. VINBLASTINE & VINCRISTINE CLINICAL USE VINCRISTINE: MOPP & COP; acute leukemias, lymphomas, wilm’s tumor, choriocarcinoma VINBLASTINE: ABVD;, other lymphomas, neuroblastoma, testicular cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma VINORELBINE: advance non- small cell cancer ADVERSE EFFECTS: VINBLASTINE: GIT distress, alopecia, bone marrow suppression VINCRISTINE: neurotoxicity, areflexia, peripheral neuritis, paralytic ileus
B. ETOPOSIDE & TENIPOSIDE • Podophyllotoxins from May apple root • interacts w/ topoisomerase II….>inhibits mitochondrial electron transport….> increase degradation of DNA • late S and early G2 phase • oral; elimination thru the kidneys • small cell lung CA, prostate & testicular CA • cause bone marrow suppression, GIT effects, alopecia
C. TOPOTECAN & IRINOTECAN • from Comptotheca acuminate tree • inhibit topoisomerase I • DNA damage • Topotecan: advanced ovarian cancer, small cell lung cancer • Irinotecan: ,metastatic colorectal CA • Cause: myelosuppression & diarrhea
D. PACLITAXEL & DOCETAXEL • Taxanes from Western yew • Prevent microtubule disassembly into tubulin monomers; by IV • Advanced breast and ovarian cancers • Paclitaxel: N & V, myelosuppression, peripheral neuropathy, hypersensitivity rx • Docetaxil: neurotoxicity & bone marrow suppression, fluid retention, rash
A. DOXORUBICIN & DAUNORUBICIN • intercalate between base pairs………> inhibit topoisomerase II….> • generate free radicals …………> block synthesis of RNA & DNA…> • DNA strand scisision • Given IV; excreted in the bile & urine
A. DOXORUBICIN & DAUNORUBICIN • DAUNORUBICIN: acute leukemias • DOXORUBICIN: ABVD; myelomas, sarcomas, breast, endometrial, lungs, ovarian & thyroid cancers • CARDIOTOXICITY ( USE DEXRAZOXANE, radical scavenger) • Bone marrow suppression, GIT effects, alopecia
B. BLEOMYCIN • DNA strand breakage …..……> inhibit DNA synthesis • CCS on G2 phase • USE: testicular cancer & Hodgskin’s lymphoma, lymphomas, squamous cell cancer • Hypersensitivity reaction, pulmonary dysfunction