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. A drug ...

This regimen change is based on evidence of the efficacy equivalence of these two drugs and the lack of an increase in overall toxic effects when capecitabine is used. Many investigators in ...

During the first cycle of capecitabine development, three concomitant drugs were found to affect 5-FU clearance. [5] Paracetamol and morphine increased 5-FU clearance by 26% and 41%, respectively ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The FDA had already granted the drug Breakthrough Therapy designation ... death compared with those treated with just Herceptin and capecitabine. Serious adverse events occurred in 26% of patients ...

The study will compare two different doses of NGC-Cap to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved single-agent capecitabine. The goal is to assess the safety and efficacy of NGC-Cap ...

Genomic medicine leverages an individual’s genetic information to guide healthcare decisions, with drug-gene testing ... medications like fluorouracil and capecitabine widely used.