Pharmacology 3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Epirubicin, Neoplasm, Anemia
24 Oct 2016
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Feel free to email me (oneclass512475@gmail. com) if you have any questions or don"t understand something! Describe what cancer is and why it can be a fatal disease. Define the basic principles of cancer therapy. Name the different classes of drugs used to treat cancer. Cancer: a disease where abnormal cells can proliferate without control & are able to invade other tissues (i. e. cancer = malignant). Cancer is a collection of many diseases (i. e. there are 100s of types of cancer depending on the subtype of origin and the type of tumour cell present) Metastasis of cancer allows reaching distant parts of the body by travelling through blood and lymph vessels: spreading of the cancer is usually what causes death to cancer patients. Most cancers are named based on the organ or type of cell in which they start. Cancer arises from a single transformed cells which can give rise to a population (monoclonal differentiation).
