Who are LV5FU2 or capecitabine's main competitors?

Direct comparators (same drug class / molecular target / therapeutic area): Xeloda, Fudr, Folic Acid, Erlotinib, Pemetrexed, Placebo plus S1, 5Fluorouracil.

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LV5FU2 or capecitabine — Competitive Intelligence Brief

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

LV5FU2 or capecitabine (LV5FU2 or capecitabine) competitive landscape: 6 comparators, recent regulatory actions, upcoming PDUFA, patent timeline. Class: Fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite. Area: Oncology.

phase 3 Fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite Thymidylate synthase Oncology Small molecule Live · refreshed every 30 min

Target snapshot

LV5FU2 or capecitabine (LV5FU2 or capecitabine) — Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive. LV5FU2/capecitabine is a fluoropyrimidine prodrug that inhibits thymidylate synthase and gets incorporated into DNA/RNA, disrupting cancer cell replication.

Comparator set (6 drugs)

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Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Phase	Class	Target	Approval / PDUFA
LV5FU2 or capecitabine TARGET	LV5FU2 or capecitabine	Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive	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
Erlotinib, Pemetrexed	Erlotinib, Pemetrexed	Hunan Province Tumor Hospital	marketed	EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor + antifolate antimetabolite	EGFR; thymidylate synthase and folate-dependent enzymes
Placebo plus S1	Placebo plus S1	Chinese PLA General Hospital	marketed	Fluoropyrimidine antimetabolite	Thymidylate synthase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase
5Fluorouracil	5Fluorouracil	University of Nebraska	marketed	Antimetabolite	Thymidylate synthase

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this set.

Patent timeline (forward window)

No upcoming patent expiries for this set.

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). LV5FU2 or capecitabine — Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/lv5fu2-or-capecitabine. Accessed 2026-05-17.

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