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What is xeloda?
Xeloda 500 mg Tab
Drug Name:
CAPECITABINE ORAL
Other Brand Names:
Xeloda
Uses:
Capecitabine is used alone or with other treatments/medications to treat certain types of cancer (e.g., of the breast, colon, rectum). It works by slowing or stopping cancer cell growth and by decreasing tumor size.
What are the possible side effects of taking xeloda?
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xeloda chemo - Breast Cancer Community
- Feb 14, 2009
can drinking alcohol make xeloda less effective This discussion is related to Foods to ta...
secondary breast cancer - Breast Cancer Community
- Feb 04, 2009
will xeloda given alone treat both tumours in chest wall with mestases in liver.cancer is t...
treatment of Tykerb & Xeloda - Breast Cancer Community
- Jan 15, 2009
My wife is dignosed with MBC of bones. She is started with Biophosphanates , Aromysin 25 mg...
platelet drop - Breast Cancer Community
- Oct 12, 2008
my platelets dropped in a period of about 3 weeks from 165 to 56, to me this seems to be ve...
Breast cancer bone metastasis - Breast Cancer: Stage 3 & 4 Community
- Feb 07, 2008
My mother was diaganosed with Breast cancer bone metastasis six months back (with acute bac...
Xeloda vs. Arimides or Femara? - Breast Cancer Community
- Apr 26, 2007
My mother, 79 years old, has breast cancer that has reoccured now in her liver. She had a ...
xeloda - Breast Cancer Expert Forum
- Aug 20, 2004
My doc is switching from taxol/carboplatin/ herceptin to xeloda/ herceptin as my treatment ...
Taxotere/Arimidex and Taxotere/Xeloda - Breast Cancer Expert Forum
- Sep 22, 2003
I am a metastatic breast cancer patient with mets in liver and lung. I am currently on Taxo...
Foods to take with Xeloda - Breast Cancer Expert Forum
- Aug 19, 2002
I've just begun to take Xeloda and am unsure as to what foods I can take with it. I've hea...
The use of Xeloda and Taxotere as a combo in the treatment of breast cancer. - Breast Cancer Expert Forum
- Jul 06, 2001
There is an article in the May 2001 issue of the MAMM Breast Cancer magazine written by Joy...
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