BIOM 4090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cisplatin, Thymidylate Synthase, Purine

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Unit 10: drugs used in the treatment of cancer. Is the second leading cause of death world-wide. Currently, 64% of people diagnosed with cancer will survive more than five years (canadian cancer. The goal of anticancer drugs is to destroy the cancer cells. Single drug or combination drug therapy can be used alone or in addition to surgery and radiation. Below is a flow chart that highlights the classes of anticancer drugs that are available . Cancers is the name given to a malignant neoplasm where cells exhibit: [sometimes] colonization of other locations in the body (metastasis) Example: a tumour is initiated in the epithelial cells that line a tissue. Once these cells become abnormal they will proliferate or multiply. The other term that is mentioned on this diagram is angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels from existing vasculature: angiogenesis .

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