Effects of chemoradiation therapy by using capecitabine on gastric cancer patients

Monday, September 20, 2010 - 12:49 in Health & Medicine

A research team from Singapore reviewed the outcome of patients with resected gastric cancers treated with capecitabine and radiation compared to 5-fluorouracil with radiation or fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy only. They found that survival of patients treated with capecitabine and radiation was comparable to the other two conventional treatments

Read the whole article on Physorg

More from Physorg

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net