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Cancer
Investigators at Medical University of Graz target cancer
September 11th, 2008
According to recent research from Graz, Austria, "Capecitabine, an oral fluoropyrimidine and 5-fluorouracil (FU) prodrug recently approved for the treatment of metastatic colon and breast cancer, is currently under investigation in patients with gastric cancer." "It has the advantage of oral administration, and good tolerability with its activity being comparable with intravenous 5-FU. Lupus erythematosus and lupuslike drug eruptions have been observed after 5-FU treatment, but so far no cases of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus have been described in patients treated either with capecitabine or 5-FU," wrote W. Weger and colleagues, Medical University of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-09-11)
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