Dear Editor,Recently,the phase III Asian XELIRI(capecitabine plus irinotecan)ProjecT(AXEPT)study demonstrated the non-inferiority of modified capecitabine plus irinotecan(mXELIRI)±bevacizumab(Bev)to fluorouracil plus...
Cardio-oncology is a discipline based on early screening,monitoring,and treating chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity.There are many chemotherapeutics known for their cardiac toxic effects,including fluoropyrimidines.F...
Fluoropyrimidines are widely used in the treatment of solid tumors, mainly gastrointestinal, head and neck and breast cancer. Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) is the rate-limiting enzyme for catabolism of 5-FU an...
Fluoropyrimidines(FP)are given in the combination treatment of the advanced disease or as monotherapy in the neo-adjuvant and adjuvant treatment of colorectal cancerand other solid tumors including breast,head and nec...
A new biocidal agents fluorine substituted-3-thioxopyrimidine-5-carbonitriles (2-9) and/or the related fluorine substi- tuted pyrimido (4,5-d) pyrimidines (10-14) were synthesized by the cycloaddition of fluorinated ...
Background: Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with 5-FU has been widely used to improve local control of disease and to preserve anal sphincter in the treatment of rectal cancer. UFT and S-1 as oral dihydropyrimidi...