Certain oral chemotherapies may cause hand-foot syndrome, but reducing the dose of the drug allows it to heal, an expert told CURE®. Understanding the impact of side effects from drugs such as Xeloda ...
March 1, 2012 — The anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib (Celebrex, Pfizer) can be used to significantly reduce hand-foot syndrome (HFS), the most common adverse effect of an increasingly popular ...
Capecitabine is an oral fluoropyrimidine prodrug widely employed in the management of colorectal, breast and gastric malignancies. While generally more convenient than intravenous 5-fluorouracil, it ...