作者: Gennaro Daniele , Marianna Gallo , Maria Carmela Piccirillo , Pasqualina Giordano , Amelia D'Alessio
DOI: 10.1517/17425255.2013.759939
关键词: Drug 、 Breast cancer 、 Medicine 、 Pharmacology 、 Prodrug 、 Pharmacokinetics 、 Oncology 、 English language 、 Internal medicine 、 Pharmacodynamics 、 Capecitabine 、 Metastatic breast cancer
摘要: Introduction: Capecitabine, an oral prodrug of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), is adsorbed in its intact form through the intestine and metabolized to 5-FU tumour cells. In metastatic breast cancer (MBC), capecitabine effective well-tolerated therapeutic option both monotherapy combination with chemotherapeutic or molecular-targeted agents. Areas covered: We summarized data on pharmacokinetics pharmacodynamics capecitabine. also produced a general review most relevant clinical studies MBC. A literature search was performed using PubMed database including selected articles published English language up October 2012. Expert opinion: The unique pharmacodynamic/pharmacokinetic features represent bases reduced toxicity activity several tumours. Although during past 10 years there has been increasing use this drug MBC as single agent combination, encouraging results well tolerated active...