A research team from Singapore reviewed the outcome of patients with resected gastric cancers treated with capecitabine and radiation compared to 5-fluorouracil with radiation or fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy only. They found that survival of patients treated with capecitabine and radiation was comparable to the other two conventional treatments.
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