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Annals of Oncology Advance Access published online on November 4, 2009
Annals of Oncology, doi:10.1093/annonc/mdp469
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society for Medical Oncology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

letter to the editor

Capecitabine after gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer: have we got the patient right?

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We have read with great interest the meta-analysis reported by Okines et al. [1] comparing capecitabine-based and 5-fluorouracil-based combination chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer (AGC) and we completely agree with the authors’ conclusion that capecitabine can substitute 5-fluorouracil in this setting. Moreover, as the analysis demonstrates a significant . . . [Full Text of this Article]

L. Fornaro1, E. Vasile1,*, G. Masi1, F. Loupakis1, S. Caponi1, L. Ginocchi1 and A. Falcone1,2

1 Unit of Medical Oncology 2, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori
2 Department of Oncology, Transplants and New Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

* (E-mail: envasile@tin.it)


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