Intravenous bolus fluorouracil plus leucovorin is the standard adjuvant treatment for colon cancer. The oral fluoropyrimidine capecitabine is an established alternative to bolus fluorouracil plus ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first generic version of Xeloda (capecitabine), an oral chemotherapy pill used to treat cancer of the colon or rectum (colorectal cancer) that ...
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 ...
Randomized Trial of Amifostine in Locally Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy and Hyperfractionated Radiation: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Trial 98-01 ...
Dr. Gabriel A. Brooks discusses what DPD deficiency is and why it is important for patients with cancer receiving 5-FU or Xeloda to be aware of it. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated ...
Machine Learning Model Integrating Computed Tomography Image–Derived Radiomics and Circulating miRNAs to Predict Residual Teratoma in Metastatic Nonseminoma Testicular Cancer Capecitabine, an oral ...
*Study included six patients who had prior history of systemic chemotherapy. ‡Study included patients who had recurrent disease after curative resection and adjuvant fluoropyrimidine-based ...
JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three chemotherapy pills to treat her squamous cell carcinoma on Jan.