Efficacy of the Oral Fluorouracil Pro-drug Capecitabine in Cancer Treatment: a Review

Capecitabine (Xeloda®) was developed as a pro-drug of fluorouracil (FU), with the aim of improving tolerability and intratumor drug concentrations through its tumor-specific conversion to the active drug. The purpose of this paper is to review the available information on capecitabine, focusing on i...

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Autores principales: Koukourakis, Georgios V., Kouloulias, Vassilios, Koukourakis, Michael J., Zacharias, Georgios A., Zabatis, Haralabos, Kouvaris, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2008
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18794792
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules13081897

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18794792
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules13081897

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