When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient's body surface area.

Immunotherapy. 2012;4(9):939-945. The percentage of patients achieving complete clearance of their AKs in the 5-FU group was 19, 28.2 and 52.6% in the 1-, 2- and 4-week treatment groups, respectively.

If you are worried about using this medicine, speak to your doctor, nurse or pharmacist. DBL Fluorouracil Injection BP contains the active ingredient fluorouracil. DBL Fluorouracil Injection BP is ...

Drug-loaded 3D printed films could change cancer treatments forever as world first research from the University of South ...

A recent study in eClinicalMedicine found that fecal microbiota transplantation, combined with fruquintinib and tislelizumab, significantly improved survival rates in patients with microsatellite ...

“When I was in training, we would often bypass the rooms of patients with breast cancer, because we were told there was ...

NuCana’s pipeline includes NUC-3373 and NUC-7738. NUC-3373 is a new chemical entity derived from the nucleoside analog 5-fluorouracil, a widely used chemotherapy agent. NUC-3373 is currently being ...

Besides carboplatin and cisplatin, other cancer drugs with limited availability include 5-fluorouracil, fludarabine phosphate, dacarbazine, methotrexate, amifostine, azacitidine, and capecitabine.

Exeliom is running three Phase II trials of the candidate in three oncology indications but will focus on the gastric cancer ...

For example, diuretics, such as Lasix, can increase urinary excretion of thiamine. The chemotherapy drug Fluorouracil may also cause low thiamine levels, possibly by increasing thiamine breakdown and ...

In this study, the researchers focused on a drug called 5-fluorouracil, which is used to treat colorectal cancers, among others. The drug is typically infused over a 46-hour period, and the dosage ...

A database search of PubMed and Embase was performed from 1965 to April 2012 using the terms 'actinic keratoses', 'solar keratoses', 'topical 5-fluorouracil', 'topical 5-FU', 'double-blind ...