Irinotecan Liposome in Combination With Capecitabine

Pancreatic cancer is a group of malignant tumors mainly originated from pancreatic ductal epithelium and follicular cells, with high degree of malignancy, insidious onset, difficult early diagnosis, rapid progression, short survival time, and one of the malignant tumors with the worst prognosis, which is known as the "king of cancers". In recent years, the incidence rate of pancreatic cancer has been increasing both at home and abroad. At present, the palliative treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer is still mainly based on chemotherapy, such as FOLFIRINOX regimen. And after standard first-line treatment, most of the patients have problems such as poor physical status, no standard treatment options and limited options available. Capecitabine is a selective fluorouracil methionine salt antitumor drug, belongs to the pyrimidine class of antimetabolites, and is the precursor drug of 5-fluorouracil. Its first-line monotherapy for pancreatic cancer is 24% effective, and it is directly recommended by NCCN 2024 V2.0 as a second-line treatment for patients with pancreatic cancer who have failed gemcitabine therapy.The 2024 CSCO Guidelines for Pancreatic Cancer recommend the use of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-like regimens as a second-line treatment for patients who have been treated with a gemcitabine-based regimen as first-line treatment. In a clinical study exploring capecitabine in gemcitabine-treated patients with metastatic or unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer, 42 pat…

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