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Case 3: A 70-year-old woman with painful bony metastases and red-cell transfusion dependence who has been treated with multiple sequential hormonal therapies and zoledronic acid but is reluctant to receive chemotherapy due to concerns about being the sole caretaker of her husband, who has Alzheimer’s disease (from the practice of Dr Joan F Kroener)
 

Bajetta E et al. Safety and efficacy of two different doses of capecitabine in the treatment of advanced breast cancer in older women. J Clin Oncol 2005;23(10):2155-61. Abstract

Hennessy BT et al. Lower dose capecitabine has a more favorable therapeutic index in metastatic breast cancer: Retrospective analysis of patients treated at MD Anderson Cancer Center and a review of capecitabine toxicity in the literature. Ann Oncol 2005;16(8):1289-96. Abstract

O’Shaughnessy J et al. Superior survival with capecitabine plus docetaxel combination therapy in anthracycline-pretreated patients with advanced breast cancer: Phase III trial results. J Clin Oncol 2002;20(12):2812-23. Abstract

 

 

 

 

 

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