Colorectal and Breast Cancer Treatment Plans
If you're currently taking XELODA, it's important that you follow your doctor's colorectal and metastatic breast cancer treatment
plan exactly. Your doctor will prescribe a dose and treatment plan that is right for you.
Know Your Oral Chemotherapy Medication
There are 2 types of XELODA tablets—150mg and 500mg tablets. Your doctor may ask you to take
various combinations of both 150 mg and 500 mg tablets together for each dose. You need to
know what each type of tablet looks like:
The
150 mg tablets are light peach in color with 150 on one side
The
500 mg tablets are peach in color with 500 on one side
Taking the wrong tablets could cause an overdose (too much medicine) or an underdose
(too little medicine). Your doctor may tell you to lower the dose or to stop XELODA treatment
for a while. Adjusting the dose of XELODA to be right for each patient is an important part
of treatment. Your doctor may also prescribe XELODA tablets in combination with other
treatments.
Explore the other pages in this section to learn
What to Expect with XELODA,
How to Take
XELODA, and how to
Get the Most from XELODA.
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