This guide should only be given to patients who have been prescribed capecitabine
Regimen details Days Drug Dose Route 1-35* Capecitabine 825mg/m2 BD PO *
0b013e328332a7fc We evaluated safety and efficacy
Most toxicities of capecitabine-RT were related to radiation dermatitis
The main finding in this study is that gemcitabine and capecitabine followed by concurrent capecitabine and radiotherapy is an effective, tolerable, and promising adjuvant regimen in EHCC and GBCA
It is important for you to work closely with your doctor during your treatment
Patients received pyrotinib (400 mg orally, once daily) and capecitabine (1000 mg/m 2 orally, twice daily, on days 1-14 of each 21-day cycle) until disease
However, 77% of patients received capecitabine at 800–900 mg/m 2 twice daily, and the majority of patients received capecitabine 5 days a week, only on the days of radiotherapy
Days 2 to 14
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) have developed national site-specific radiotherapy consent forms
It targets the part of the body where the cancer is/was
Chemoradiation is when chemotherapy and radiotherapy are given at the same time
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Combining adjuvant radiotherapy with capecitabine was safe in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, and had comparable toxicity to radiotherapy alone [12]
TP is found to be elevated in tumor cells in comparison to normal cells, which consequently tumor-localizes the production of 5-FU, thereby Background: Capecitabine is effective in treating colorectal cancer and is increasingly being investigated for use in preoperative chemoradiation of rectal cancer
Postoperative radiochemotherapy