Xeloda

The drug was also approved for use with another chemotherapy drug, capecitabine, sold under the brand name Xeloda by Roche Holding AG, in women with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

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The drug is called Xeloda, and according to Bertha Prince, it costs more than $1,000 without insurance.

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Prince said doctors told her Xeloda is the only treatment left after the different chemotherapy treatments they have tried.

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Xeloda, which is inactive in pill form, becomes active when it comes into contact with a naturally occurring protein called thymidine phosphorylase

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The EMA panel, whose opinions are usually followed by the European Commission, said it is recommending that Avastin in combination with chemotherapy Xeloda should be extended to include first-line treatment of patients with metastatic-breast cancer in whom treatment with other chemotherapy options isn't considered appropriate.

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Roche said the European Commission has broadened the existing Avastin metastatic-breast-cancer label, allowing the drug to be used in combination with chemotherapy Xeloda.

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Oncologist Dr. David Decker, who treated Mrs. Kalley during her recent relapse, says he put her on a regimen of the chemotherapy drug Xeloda with Avastin.

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Roche said that the submission to expand Avastin's label was based on results from a late-stage trial, called RIBBON 1, which showed a significant increase in the length of time women lived without their disease getting worse when Avastin was combined with the chemotherapy Xeloda, compared to those who received Xeloda alone.

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Xeloda is a chemotherapy pill that kills cancerous cells.

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Thankfully, a clinical trial had recently started and I was selected for a combination of Xeloda and Avastin.

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