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About Your Treatment
Your doctor has ordered the drug capecitabine to help treat your illness. The drug is taken by mouth with tablets. Take capecitabine with water within 30 minutes after eating a meal. This medication is used to treat: metastatic colorectal cancer metastatic breast cancer
This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for information.
Capecitabine is in a class of drugs known as antimetabolites. Capecitabine resembles a normal cell nutrient needed by cancer cells to grow. The cancer cells take up the capecitabine, which then interferes with their growth. The ...
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Encyclopedia: Capecitabine
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 5-fluorouracil in the tumor, where it inhibits DNA synthesis and slows growth of tumor tissue. The activation of capecitabine follows a pathway with three enzymatic steps and two intermediary metabolites, 5'-deoxy-5-fluorocytidine and 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine , to form 5-fluorouracil. Capecitabine is marketed under the trade name Xeloda...
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Capecitabine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capecitabine (INN) (pronounced /keɪpˈsaɪtəbiːn/) is an orally-administered chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of metastatic breast and colorectal ...
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Capecitabine - National Cancer Institute
Dec 13, 2006 ... This page contains brief information about capecitabine and a collection of links to more information from the National Cancer Institute ...
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XELODA (capecitabine) The First FDA-Approved Oral Chemotherapy
Learn about XELODA, the first FDA-approved oral chemotherapy for both metastatic breast and colorectal cancer, and Dukes C Stage III colon cancer.
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Treatment Success for Xeloda
Xeloda is a popular treatment for Capecitabine.
| Condition | Members | Success |
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| Colon Cancer | 14 | 86% |
| Breast Cancer | 8 | 88% |
| Depression - Teen... | 1 | 100% |
Overall, 91% (23 members) find Xeloda helpful.