In the past 5–10 years there has been a growing trend for substituting conventional 5-fluorouracil with the oral prodrug of 5-fluorouracil, capecitabine, in chemotherapy regimens. This regimen ...

Potentiation of anticancer activity of capecitabine is required to improve ... by other pan-HDAC-Is such as LBH589 or TSA and by class I HDAC-Is such as VPA and MS275. Conversely, tubacin, a ...

The final analysis showed that disease-free survival was longer in the capecitabine group than in the control group (74.1% vs. 67.6% of the patients were alive and free from recurrence or second ...

We evaluated capecitabine (an oral fluoropyrimidine) and oxaliplatin (a platinum compound) as alternatives to infused fluorouracil and cisplatin, respectively, for untreated advanced ...

Capecitabine is a chemotherapy drug often used for this purpose. Gallbladder cancer is a rare type of cancer that begins in your gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small organ beneath the liver ...

The Appraisal Committee reviewed the data available on the clinical and cost effectiveness of capecitabine, having considered evidence on the nature of gastric cancer and the value placed on the ...

Capecitabine (Xeloda, Roche Products) is an orally administered pro-drug of fluorouracil. It is converted to fluorouracil by enzymes that are principally located in the liver and tumour tissue. This ...