Adjuvant chemotherapy for CRC actually lasts 6 months. The choice of optimal duration is based upon old studies using 5-fluorouracil (5FU). During the last ten years, results of major randomized ...

"To bridge this gap, we developed a post-surgery chemotherapy-loaded film ... with tailored doses of anti-cancer drugs 5-fluorouracil (5FU) and cisplatin (Cis), the 3D printed films are placed ...

Patients are being recruited for a clinical trial that has a long-term goal of uncovering the reasons the chemotherapy drug, 5-fluorouracil (5FU), causes serious side effects in some patients.

Chemotherapy uses anti cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. The drugs circulate throughout the body in the bloodstream. This page is about chemotherapy for large bowel (colon) cancer that ...

and randomized patients to observation only or 5FU-based chemoradiotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Despite the low numbers of patients, there was a significant survival benefit for the ...