This fact is especially pertinent in cancer therapy, where most cytotoxic agents have a steep dose–response curve for toxicity and, consequently, narrow therapeutic windows. Capecitabine (Xeloda ...

Trials of Capecitabine-based Two-drug Combinations. Platinum (cisplatin and oxaliplatin), taxanes (paclitaxel and docetaxel) and irinotecan are active agents used to treat gastric cancer.

Novel HER2 therapies show strong intracranial efficacy, enabling systemic treatment over local therapy for small, ...

Metronomic capecitabine plus AI significantly improved PFS and OS in HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer compared to AI alone. The MECCA trial enrolled 263 patients, with balanced ...

Circulating tumor DNA may be a prognostic biomarker for relapse and early recurrence detection in resected early-stage ...

Earlier this year, physician Edward Greeno discovered that one of his patients had missed a dose of capecitabine, the oral chemotherapy drug he had prescribed to treat her colorectal cancer. But he ...

Herrmann et al. compared the safety and efficacy of gemcitabine plus capecitabine (GemCap) with that of gemcitabine monotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer. This phase III trial included ...

plus endocrine therapy versus capecitabine in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, according to an extended follow-up of the randomized ...

In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Society for Radiation Oncology and published online Feb. 27 in ...

Common chemotherapy drugs for bowel cancer used before or after surgery are fluorouracil, capecitabine and oxaliplatin. When do you have chemotherapy for colon cancer? You’re likely to have ...

The technology combines the chemotherapy drug capecitabine, used to treat grade 3 and 4 colorectal cancer, with Proteus’ ingestible sensor. In order to optimise treatment regimens, while ...