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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2008 Apr 15;63(3):441–450. doi: 10.1007/s00280-008-0754-2

Table 6.

Capecitabine pharmacokinetics

Dose
level
Oxaliplatin
(mg/m2)
Irinotecan
(mg/m2)
Capecitabine
(mg bid)
Capecitabine
Cmax (nM)
Capecitabine
AUC (nM h)
DFCR
Cmax
(nM)
DFCR
AUC
(nM h)
DFUR
Cmax
(nM)
DFUR
AUC
(nM h)
5FU
Cmax
(nM)
5FU
AUC
(nM h)
Week 1
1A 60 40 1,000
Mean 3,008 4,990 3,152 6,849 5,899 11,726 466 895
SD 2,478 4,574 1,149 1,713 2,608 5,635 248 557
CV % 82 92 36 25 44 48 53 62
1 60 40 300
Mean 1,263 1,876 2,630 5,561 2,860 5,481 155 297
SD 698 1,183 2,125 5,079 581 1,114 45 135
CV % 55 63 81 91 20 20 29 45
2 60 40 450
Mean 2,751 2,854 2,799 7,151 6,368 9,996 422 636
SD 2,567 1,485 2,299 2,398 6,685 7,194 325 217
CV % 93 52 82 34 105 72 77 34
3 60 50 450
Mean 1,488 2,622 2,581 6,074 3,981 8,647 302 581
SD 854 1,166 2,337 3,351 1,336 2,559 119 236
CV % 57 44 91 55 34 30 39 41
4 60 60 450
Mean 2,820 3,239 2,534 5,835 7,407 12,658 518 962
SD 706 557 1,332 3,042 1,156 1,159 271 362
CV % 25 17 53 52 16 9 52 38
Week 4
1A 60 40 1,000
Mean Data available from 1 patient only 2,609 2,435 3,251 6,489 6,345 10,816 315 568
SD NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
CV % NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
1 60 40 300
Mean 958 1,815 1,908 4,372 2,298 5,052 148 298
SD 359 834 1,442 3,808 36 1,174 32 112
CV % 37 46 76 87 2 23 22 38
2 60 40 450
Mean 1,960 3,174 1,848 6,247 3,662 8,867 268 632
SD 1,278 1,014 975 1,919 3,010 5,084 53 113
CV% 65 32 53 31 82 57 20 18
3 60 50 450
Mean 3,265 3,229 4,566 7,524 6,197 9,399 402 529
SD 1,854 978 2,061 551 4,739 3,763 361 253
CV% 57 30 45 7 76 40 90 48
4 60 60 450
Mean 1,284 3,212 1,764 5,081 3,529 12,898 188 685
SD 944 2 1,773 4,272 553 2,353 67 15
CV% 74 0 100 84 16 18 36 2

DFCR 5′-deoxy-5-fluorocytidine, DFUR 5′-deoxy-5-fluorouridine

NA not applicable