2015 Antineoplastics

III. Drugs that cause DNA strand breaks

ETOPOSIDE RESISTANCE

  • decreased accumulation via increased P-glycoprotein (à multidrug resistance)

  • changes in target proteins
    • mutation or decreased expression of topoisomerase II
    • decreased apoptosis due to mutation of p53
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