5-FU

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Acronym	Definition
5-FU	5-Fluorouracil (drug used against pancreatic cancer)

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In collaboration with Karolinska, Saladax can now offer 5-FU testing and 5-FU dose management to hospitals and oncologists throughout Europe that want to offer their patients the benefits of 5-FU dose management without setting up their own laboratory testing.

Saladax Biomedical, Inc. Signs Agreement with Stockholm's Karolinska University Hospital

ONIVYDE in combination with 5-FU and leucovorin achieved a longer progression-free survival compared with the 5-FU and leucovorin arm (3.

Merrimack and Baxalta Announce Publication of the ONIVYDE(TM) (irinotecan liposome injection) NAPOLI-1 Study in The Lancet

This resulted in significantly greater anti-proliferative activity with NUC-3373 than 5-FU across a broad range of sensitive and resistant cancer cell lines.

NuCana Presents Exciting Data on Novel Anticancer Agent, NUC-3373, at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Conference in Boston

Don ethanol extract (SBE) combined with low close 5-FU in vitro and in vivo, as well as the possible mechanisms.

Scutellaria barbata D. Don extract synergizes the antitumor effects of low dose 5-fluorouracil through induction of apoptosis and metabolism

The 42% response rate achieved with the administration of TEGAFIRI and the 39% response rate in patients receiving TEGAFOX are promising and comparable to those results achieved with infused 5-FU combinations.

Uracil/ftorafur/leucovorin combined with irinotecan (TEGAFIRI) or oxaliplatin (TEGAFOX) as first-line treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer patients: results of a randomised phase II study

We are enthusiastic about CoFactor's potential to enhance the efficacy and safety of 5-FU chemotherapy in the treatment of refractory breast cancer.

ADVENTRX Begins Phase II Clinical Trial of Breast Cancer Treatment

All had progressed through at least one prior 5-FU and irinotecan-containing regimen.

Compassionate-use oxaliplatin with bolus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin in heavily pretreated patients with advanced colorectal cancer

In use as a cancer drug for decades, 5-FU is a mainstay of various treatment regimens for solid tumors including those of the colon, stomach, esophagus, breast, and head and neck.

Wellstat Grants BTG European Distribution Rights to Investigational Antidote for 5-FU Overexposure

Editor's Note: Pretreatment with curcumin prior to 5-FU administration revealed a benefit in 5-FU sensitive as well as resistant cells.

Curcumin sensitizes colon cancer cells to chemotherapy

BEL-7402/5-FU cells were cultured in the above-mentioned medium with the addition of 20[micro]g/ml 5-FU until at least 2 weeks before beginning experimentation.

Reversal effect of 2',4'-Dihydroxy-6'-methoxy-3',5'-dimethylchalcone on multi-drug resistance in resistant human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line BEL-7402/5-FU

for use as a potential treatment for accidental overexposure to the chemotherapy drug fluorouracil (5-FU) due to dosing errors or impaired clearance of 5-FU from the body.

Wellstat Grants U.S. Distribution Rights to its Investigational Antidote for 5-FU Overexposure to Specialist Healthcare Company BTG

The results indicate that mixtures of [beta]-aescin and 5-FU showed a synergistic effect on the 50% inhibitory effect when their ratio was 4:1 when compared with either agent alone.

Synergistic effects of [beta]-aescin and 5-fluorouracil in human hepatocellular carcinoma SMMC-7721 cells