Capecitabine in combination with irinotecan (XELIRI), administered as a 2-weekly schedule, as first-line chemotherapy for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: A phase II study of the Spanish GOTI group

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1039-1043

  Garcia Alfonso, P ^a   Muoz Martin A ^a   Mendez Urea M ^b   Quiben Pereira, R ^b   Gonzalez Flores, E ^c   Perez Manga, G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capecitabine; Colorectal cancer; Combined modality therapy; Irinotecan

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; IRINOTECAN;

AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FEVER; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TOXICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAMPTOTHECIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 70349675233     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605261     Document Type: Article

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