(ChemotherapyAdvisor) – A single-arm study of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer will determine whether pharmacokinetic-guided 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) regimens can provide steady dose levels while reducing toxicities such as grade 3/4 mucositis and diarrhea, Saladax Biomedical, Inc., and the Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research (CESAR) announced today.
The collaborative trial will determine whether 5-FU target blood levels can be maintained through six courses of treatment by optimizing the dose administered to individual patients at each infusion using the Saladax Biomedical My5-FU automated immunoassay for personalized dose adjustment, according to Saladax Biomedical, Bethlehem, PA, and CESAR, Vienna, Austria.
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Planned enrollment at the four study sites in Germany is 80 patients and study duration is anticipated to be one year.
