Safety of Chronic Low-Dose Capecitabine as Maintenance Therapy in Gastrointestinal Cancers

BACKGROUND: Maintenance chemotherapy is not routinely used in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. Capecitabine is an oral formulation that is enzymatically converted to 5-fluorouracil preferentially in tumor tissue. We hypothesize that capecitabine could be used as a long-term maintenance therapy to impr...

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Auteurs principaux: Sun, Jun F., Wu, Rebekah R., Norris, Craig, Noone, Anne-Michelle, Amankwa-Sakyi, Margaret, Slack, Rebecca, Marshall, John L.
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: International Society of Gastrointestinal Oncology 2009
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739638/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742139
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