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Capecitabine, sold under the brand name Xeloda among others, is a anticancer medication used to treat breast cancer, gastric cancer and colorectal cancer. [3] For breast cancer it is often used together with docetaxel. [4] It is taken by mouth. [4] Common side effects include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, and rashes. [4]
Last week, Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals' generic product portfolio received a major boost after the Food and Drug Administration approved the company's generic version of Xeloda, a cancer drug.
Triple-negative breast cancer comprises 15–20% of all breast cancer cases [3] and affects more young women or women with a mutation in the BRCA1 gene than other breast cancers. [4] Triple-negative breast cancers comprise a very heterogeneous group of cancers. TNBC is the most challenging breast cancer type to treat. [5]
There are targeted therapies for lung cancer, colorectal cancer, head and neck cancer, breast cancer, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, prostate cancer, melanoma and other cancers. [1] [4] [5] Biomarkers are usually required to aid the selection of patients who will likely respond to a given targeted therapy. [6]
“We need to be very clear and honest about what we die from, and it’s not ‘complications from breast cancer,’ it is metastatic breast cancer,” says Pam Kohl, a patient advocate.
When Jenny Burkholder, 51, first began feeling chest pain in 2019, she thought it was just the result of a yoga injury. “I went into chaturanga, and I thought I had ripped the muscles around my ...
Cancer cells can also cause defects in the cellular pathways of apoptosis (programmed cell death). As most chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells in this manner, defective apoptosis allows survival of these cells, making them resistant. Many chemotherapy drugs also cause DNA damage, which can be repaired by enzymes in the cell that carry out DNA ...
Advances in breast cancer treatment give new hope for continued progress. Shortly after her 40 th Birthday in February 2022, star of Netflix’s “Get Organized with The Home Edit,” Clea ...