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Capecitabine monotherapy — Competitive Intelligence Brief
phase 3
Fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite
Thymidylate synthase
Oncology
Small molecule
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Target snapshot
Capecitabine monotherapy (Capecitabine monotherapy) — Zhen-Hai Lu. Capecitabine is a prodrug that is converted to fluorouracil in tumor tissue, where it inhibits thymidylate synthase and gets incorporated into DNA and RNA to disrupt cancer cell growth.
Comparator set (6 drugs)
| Drug | Generic | Sponsor | Phase | Class | Target | Approval / PDUFA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capecitabine monotherapy TARGET | Capecitabine monotherapy | Zhen-Hai Lu | phase 3 | Fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite | Thymidylate synthase | |
| Xeloda | capecitabine | Cheplapharm | marketed | Nucleoside Metabolic Inhibitor [EPC] | Thymidylate synthase | 1998-01-01 |
| Fudr | FLOXURIDINE | marketed | Antimetabolite [EPC] | Thymidylate synthase | 1970-01-01 | |
| Folic Acid | FOLIC ACID | Pfizer | marketed | Vitamin C [EPC] | Thymidylate synthase | 1946-01-01 |
| Irinotecan, 5FU, leucovorin | Irinotecan, 5FU, leucovorin | Asan Medical Center | marketed | Chemotherapy combination (topoisomerase I inhibitor + antimetabolite) | Topoisomerase I; thymidylate synthase | |
| S-1 | S-1 | TTY Biopharm | marketed | Antimetabolite; fluoropyrimidine combination | Thymidylate synthase | |
| Unitrim | BRODIMOPRIM | marketed | brodimoprim | Bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase, Dihydrofolate reductase |
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Sponsor landscape (Fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite class)
- Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive · 2 drugs in this class
- National Cancer Center, Korea · 2 drugs in this class
- Hoffmann-La Roche · 1 drug in this class
- Japan Clinical Oncology Group · 1 drug in this class
- Jiangxi Provincial Cancer Hospital · 1 drug in this class
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia · 1 drug in this class
- Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University · 1 drug in this class
- Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. · 1 drug in this class
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology · 1 drug in this class
- UNICANCER · 1 drug in this class
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Drug Landscape (2026). Capecitabine monotherapy — Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/capecitabine-monotherapy. Accessed 2026-05-16.
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