Cancer Therapy

Study: Oral Xeloda is equivalent IV chemo in adjuvant colon cancer

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 11th, 2004

Xeloda, an oral tablet, could replace the most widely-used intravenous (IV) chemotherapy for colon cancer, according to new results from a large international phase III study presented at the 40th annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting.

The X-ACT (Xeloda in adjuvant colon cancer therapy) study successfully met its primary endpoint in demonstrating that disease-free survival for Xeloda is at least equivalent to intravenous 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (5-FU/LV), also known as the Mayo Clinic Regimen, in the adjuvant treatment of stage III colon cancer patients (or patients whose cancer has spread to the lymph nodes). The results show that treatment with...

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