5-FU = 5-fluorouracil ... a uniform stage of disease and patients with only one previous gemcitabine-containing chemotherapy regimen. Second-line treatment in first-line Phase III trials The ...

This process helps prevent the patient from developing toxic or fatal side effects from this chemo. But ... exposure to 5-FU is often fatal. If a patient develops toxicity to 5-FU or capecitabine ...

Since the 1950s, a chemotherapy drug known as 5-fluorouracil ... Instead, combining 5-FU with drugs that affect RNA synthesis ...

Investigators from Japan now report the results of a multicenter trial of S-1-based adjuvant chemotherapy in patients who underwent gastric resection. S-1 combines the oral 5-FU prodrug tegafur ...