MEDICOLOGY: Anticancer Drugs MCQS. 73

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Anticancer Drugs MCQS. 73

01. Chemotherapy therapy with Methotrexate, following drug is used to reverse the inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase?
A. Allopurinol 
B. 5-fluorouracil
C. Ifosfamide 
D. Mesna 
E. Leucovorin 

Answer: E. Leucovorin 
Leucovorin is used to reverse the inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase enzyme that is needed to convert folic acid to its active tetrahydrofolic acid (FH4). 

02. Which of the following drugs is antidote of Methotrexate?
A. Allopurinol 
B. Vincomycin
C. Warfarin 
D. Naloxone 
E. Leucovorin 

Answer: E. Leucovorin 
Two more antidotes, thymidine and glucarpidase

03. Dihydrofolate reductase enzyme that convert folic acid to active tetrahydrofolic acid (FH4) in inhibited by?
A. Methotrexate 
B. Etoposide 
C. Cisplatin
D. Fludarabine
E. 6-mercapopurine

Answer: A. Methotrexate 
Also Pemetrexed and Pralatrexate.

04. Dihydrofolate reductase enzyme that convert folic acid to active tetrahydrofolic acid (FH4) in inhibited by?
A.  Pemetrexed
B. Etoposide 
C. Cisplatin
D. Fludarabine
E. 6-mercapopurine

Answer: A. Methotrexate 
Also methotrexate and Pralatrexate.

05. Chemotherapy given before the surgical procedure in an attempt to shrink the cancer is called?
A. Adjuvant
B. Neoadjuvant
C. Palliative 
D. Maintenance 

Answer: B. Neoadjuvant

06. A patient is about to undergo the three cycle of chemotherapy prior to surgery for bladder. Which best describes chemotherapy in this setting?
A. Adjuvant
B. Neoadjuvant
C. Palliative 
D. Maintenance 

Answer: B. Neoadjuvant


07. Chemotherapy given in lower doses to assist in prolonging a remission is known as?
A. Adjuvant
B. Neoadjuvant
C. Palliative 
D. Maintenance 

Answer: D. Maintenance 

08. Chemotherapy is indicated when neoplasm are disseminated and are not able to surgery. This therapy is called?
A. Adjuvant
B. Neoadjuvant
C. Palliative 
D. Maintenance 

Answer: C. Palliative 
In advance stages of cancer, controlling the cancer is low and the goal is palliative ( alleviation of symptoms and avoidance of life threatening toxiy. Survival is extended with this therapy but the patient eventually dies of the disease. 

09.  In advance stages of cancer, controlling the cancer is low and the goal is alleviation of symptoms and avoidance of life threatening toxicity?therapy called?
A. Adjuvant
B. Neoadjuvant
C. Palliative 
D. Maintenance 

Answer: C. Palliative therapy 

10. Chemotherapy used as supplemental treatment to attack micrometastases following surgery and radiation treatment is called?
A. Adjuvant
B. Neoadjuvant
C. Palliative 
D. Maintenance 

Answer: A. Adjuvant 

11. Which of the following cells are more sensitive to chemotherapy?
A. Rapidly dividing cells 
B. Slowly proliferating cells 
C. Nondividing Cells 
D. Normal cells 

Answer: Rapidly dividing cells 
Less sensitive to slowly proliferating cells while non dividing cells (G0 phase) servive the toxic effects of many chemotherapy drugs.

12. Leukaemic or other tumor cells find sanctuary in tissue such as CNS where some chemotherapeutic drugs can't enter. Which of the following route is suitable to eliminate these cells?
A. Oral 
B. Intrathecal
C. Sublingual  
D. Intramuscular 

Answer: B. Intrathecal
Some drugs are unable to penetrate certain areas of solid tumours.

13. Which of the following is the advantage of combination chemotherapy?
A. Max cell killing within tolerated toxicity 
B. Delay the development of resistant cell lines 
C. Prevent the development of resistant cell lines 
D. Effective against broader range of cell lines 
E. All of these 

Answer: E. All of these 

14. Inhibit the de novo synthesis of purine ring and inhibit nucleotide interconversions?
A. 6-Mercaptopurine
B. 6- Thioguanine
C. Methotrexate 
D. A & B
E. All of the above 

Answer: D. A & B
Both drugs are purine antimetabolites and 6MP is a thiol analog of hypoxanthine. First purine analog to treat neoplastic disease in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia also in Crohn's disease.

15. Azathioprine is an immunosuppressant exert its cytotoxic effects after conversion to following drug?
A. 6-Mercaptopurine
B. 5-Fluorouracil
C. Fludarabine
D. Capecitabine
E. Cytarabine 

Answer: A. 6-Mercaptopurine
Because Azathioprine is an analog of 6-MP and is benificial in treating Crohn disease.

16. 6-Mercaptopurine along with its following analog is benificial in treating Crohn's disease?
A. Methotrexate 
B. 6-Thioguanine
C. 5-Fuorouracil
D. Azathioprine 
E. Capecitabine

Answer: D. Azathioprine 
It's an immunosuppressant drug. 

17. Dose of 6-Mercaptopurine is reduced by 50%_70% when used with following drug to prevent toxicity?
A. Methotrexate 
B. 6-Thioguanine
C. 5-Fuorouracil
D. Azathioprine 
E. Capecitabine

Answer: D. Azathioprine 
It's an immunosuppressant drug. 

18. Inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase leads to an inhibition of purine ring and dTMP biosynthesis?
A. 6-Mercaptopurine
B. 6- Thioguanine
C. Methotrexate 
D. A & B
E. All of the above 

Answer: C. Methotrexate 
dTMP( deoxythymidine monophosphate

19. Which of the following statements about Antimetabolites is wrong?
A. Structurally related to cell compounds 
B. Interfare with purine & pyrimidine
C. Inhibit synthesis of Purine and pyrimidine
D. Max cytotoxic effect in S phase
E. Cell cycle nonspecific 

Answer: E. Cell cycle nonspecific 

20. Which of the following statements is incorrect about Folic Acid?
A. Obtained from dietary sources 
B. Produced by intestinal flora 
C. Transfer one carbon unit in metabolic reaction 
D. Essential for cell replication 
E. Methotrexate is an agonist of Folic acid 

Answer: E. Methotrexate is an agonist to folic acid 
Methotrexate (MTX) is an antagonist to folic acid and is structurally related to folic acid 

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