Market research from the manufacturers of capecitabine indicates that the clinical community has voted with its empirical feet—it is relatively rare for US-based oncologists to prescribe the ...

Barbara O’Brien, MD, discusses the next steps of the phase 2 TBCRC049 study for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive ...

Sarah Sammons, MD, discusses some of the challenges seen with different regimens for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer ...

Researchers analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 76,805 patients to identify variants in 4 genes that are associated with adverse reactions to capecitabine, fluorouracil, mercaptopurine, ...

A coronial inquest has begun into the level of medical care received by a Cassowary Coast man who died suddenly after having ...

Background. A 66-year-old woman with metastatic mammary carcinoma, who was being treated with capecitabine, contracted a herpes zoster infection that was treated with the antiviral drug brivudin.

How do you have oxaliplatin and capecitabine? You have oxaliplatin into your bloodstream (intravenously). Capecitabine comes as tablets that you swallow whole, with plenty of water. You usually take ...

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 ...

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 ...