Capecitabine is an orally-administered chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of metastatic breast and colorectal cancers. Capecitabine is a prodrug, that is enzymatically converted to fluorouracil (antimetabolite) in the tumor, where it inhibits DNA synthesis and slows growth of tumor tissue.
Capecitabine is indicated as treatment for a variety of cancer types. For colorectal cancer, capecitabine is indicated as a single agent or a component of a combination chemotherapy regiment for the adjuvant treatment of stage III colon cancer and treatment unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer. It can also be used as a part of a combination chemother...
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Centro de Atención e Investigación Clínica en Oncología, Yucatán, Mexico
Wojewodzki Szpital Specjalistyczny lm. Stefana Kardynala Wyszynsklego SPZOZ w Lublinie, Lublin, Poland
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Cancer Hematology Centers - Flint, Flint, Michigan, United States
Mayo Clinic Hospital in Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Kaiser Permanente Dublin, Dublin, California, United States
Università Campus Biomedico, Roma, Italy
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
ASUFC P.O. "Santa Maria della Misericordia", Udine, Italy
Università vita e Salute, IRCCS San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Napoli - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
University of Verona Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy
National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, Beijing, China
University of Cincinnati Cancer Center-West Chester, West Chester, Ohio, United States
Siteman Cancer Center-South County, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Siteman Cancer Center at Saint Peters Hospital, Saint Peters, Missouri, United States
Shanghai East Hospital, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The Sixth Affiliate Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, GuangZhou, Guangdong, China
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