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5-FU
(redirected from 5-fluorouracil)

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5-FU5-Fluorouracil (drug used against pancreatic cancer)


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Manuskiatti and Fitzpatrick (2002) compared scar treatment with intralesional corticosteroids alone or combined with 5-fluorouracil or 5-fluorouracil alone or the pulsed dye laser using fluences of 5 Jcm-2.
During the study, the researchers reported that two genes - astrocyte elevated gene-1, or AEG-1, and late SV40 factor, LSF, contribute to resistance of a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug called 5-fluorouracil, or 5-FU.
Capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) versus 5-fluorouracil plus oxaliplatin (FOLFOX4) plus bevacizumab or placebo as first-line therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer: A randomised non inferiority phase III study.
 
 
 
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