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P. Manyau
School of Pharmacy
University of Zimbabwe
Objectives
• Define cancer
• Cell cycle
• Discuss mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
• Chemical carcinogens
• Malignancies associated with infection
• Oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes
• Tumour growth
• Tumour characteristics
• Screening, diagnosis
• Treatment modalities
• chemotherapy
Surveillance and Statistics
• It’s expected that by 2020 there will be 15mil new cancer cases/year,
and 70% of them will be in developing countries (GLOBCAN 2012)
• Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry (ZNCR)
• Locally the top 5 cancers in men and women are as follows:
• Men: prostate, Karposi’s sarcoma, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas, GIT and liver
• Women: Ca cervix, breast cancer, Karposi’s sarcoma, Non-Hodgkin’s
Lymphomas, GIT
• For paeds the most common cancers are as follows: Leukaemia,
Lymphomas, nephroblastoma (Wilm’s tumour), retinoblastoma, soft
tissue sarcoma
The Balancing Act
• Growth, stasis and degeneration
• Genetic mechanisms underlying
factor
• Homeostatic functions that
regulate
• Which cell type is replicated
• Time of cell death
• With age this balance is not
easily maintained
Cancer
• Cancer is a group of more than
100 different diseases
• It is characterised by
uncontrolled cell replication,
local tissue invasion and distant
metastases.