Capecitabine: clinical trials recruiting now
FDA drug label
- FDA-approved
- Yes. Capecitabine appears in the FDA drug-label database. Marketed as capecitabine.
- Drug class
- Nucleoside Metabolic Inhibitor (FDA established pharmacologic class)
- Mechanism of action
- Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors (as stated on the FDA label)
- Boxed warning
- The FDA label for Capecitabine carries a boxed warning (the FDA's most serious warning). See the full label for details.
FDA-approved use
Capecitabine tablet is a nucleoside metabolic inhibitor indicated for: Colorectal Cancer • adjuvant treatment of patients with Stage III colon cancer as a single agent or as a component of a combination chemotherapy regimen. ( 1.1 ) • perioperative treatment of adults with locally advanced rectal cancer as a component of chemoradiotherapy. ( 1.1 ) • treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer as a single agent or as a component of a combination chemotherapy regimen. ( 1.1 ) Breast Cancer • treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer as a single agent if an anthracycline-or taxane-containing chemotherapy is not indicated. ( 1.2 ) • treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer in combination with docetaxel after disease progression on prior anthracycline-containing chemotherapy. ( 1.2 ) Gastric, Esophageal, or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer • treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic gastric, esophageal, or gastroesophageal junction cancer as a component of a combination chemotherapy regimen. ( 1.3 ) • treatment of adults with HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcino…
FDA recalls / enforcement
| Reason (FDA) | Classification | Status | Initiated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Failed Dissolution Specifications: low test results at the 18 month time-point — Teva North America | Class II (FDA: may cause temporary or reversible harm) | Terminated | 2015-12-21 |
Phase breakdown
Conditions being studied
Recruiting trials involving Capecitabine
- A Clinical Study of Patritumab Deruxtecan to Treat Breast Cancer (MK-1022-016)
- A Clinical Study of Sacituzumab Tirumotecan (Sac-TMT, MK-2870) in People With Breast Cancer (MK-2870-032)
- A Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of AWT020 in Patients With Advanced Malignancies
- A Clinical Trial Comparing Long-Course Versus Short-Course Radiotherapy Followed by Immunotherapy Combined With Total Neoadjuvant Therapy (TNT) to Long-Course Radiotherapy Followed by TNT in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
- A Dose Finding Phase 1 of Sarilumab Plus Capecitabine in HER2/Neu-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer and a Single-arm, Historically-controlled Phase 2 Study of Sarilumab Plus Capecitabine in Stage I-III Triple Negative Breast Cancer With High-Risk Residual Disease (EMPOWER)
- A Phase 2 Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of JS207 With or Without JS015 in Combination With Chemotherapy in Patients With Colorectal Cancer
- A Phase 2 Study of PCS6422 With Capecitabine in Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer
- A Phase 2 Study of SSGJ-707 in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients
- A Pilot Study Evaluating β-hydroxybutyrate Supplementation Concomitant to Short-Course Radiotherapy Followed by Immunotherapy Combined With CAPEOX Neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
- A Prospective, Phase II Trial Using ctDNA to Initiate Post-operation Boost Therapy After Adjuvant Chemotherapy in TNBC
- A Prospective, Phase II Trial Using ctDNA to Initiate Post-operation Boost Therapy After NAC in TNBC
- A Randomized, Open-label, Multi-center Phase III Study Comparing the Efficacy of Oral Chemotherapy Combined With Trastuzumab Versus Paclitaxel Combined With Trastuzumab in the Adjuvant Treatment of HER2-positive, Lymph Node-negative Early Breast Cancer Patients(ORCHID-PLUS)
- A Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Zanidatamab to Trastuzumab, Each in Combination With Physician's Choice Chemotherapy, for the Treatment of Participants With Metastatic HER2-positive Breast Cancer
- A Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Multiple Treatment Combinations in Patients With Metastatic or Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
- A Study of ASP2138 Given Before Surgery, Then Chemotherapy After Surgery, in People With Pancreatic Ductal Cancer
- A Study of ASP2138 Given by Itself or Given With Other Cancer Treatments in Adults With Stomach Cancer, Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer, or Pancreatic Cancer
- A Study of DB-1310 in Advanced/Metastatic Solid Tumors
- A Study of Izalontamab Brengitecan Versus Chemotherapy in Participants With Previously Untreated, Locally Advanced, Recurrent Inoperable, or Metastatic Triple-negative Breast Cancer Ineligible for Anti-PD(L)1 Drugs (IZABRIGHT-Breast01)
- A Study of SKB264 Versus Investigator's Choice Chemotherapy in Patients With Unresectable Recurrent or Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- A Study of SKB264 Versus Investigator's Choice of Chemotherapy in Subjects With Unresectable Locally Advanced, Relapsed, or Metastatic HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer Who Have Previously Failed Endocrine Therapy
- A Study of Sacituzumab Tirumotecan (MK-2870) as a Single Agent and in Combination With Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice in Participants With HR+/HER2- Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer (MK-2870-010)
- A Study of Tetrathiomolybdate (TM) Plus Capecitabine
- A Study of the Addition of Metronomic Capecitabine to Standard Adjuvant Therapy in High Risk HER2+ BC paTients
- A Study to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of BEY1107 in Combination with Capecitabine in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
- A Vaccine (STEMVAC) With Standard Endocrine-Based Therapy or Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Metastatic Hormone Receptor Positive, HER2 Negative Breast Cancer
- ARTEMIS-102: HS-20093 Combinations in Patients with Advanced Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
- ASPEN-09-03: A Study of Evorpacept in Combination With Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy in Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
- Adaptive Radiation in Anal Cancer
- Adaptive Therapy With Capecitabine for Treatment of Metastatic ER Positive, HER2 Negative Breast Cancer
- Adjuvant Chemoradiation and Biomarkers of Response in High-risk Breast Cancer
- BRE-08 Phase II Study of CMC Regimen for Early Stage Breast Cancer
- Beamion BCGC-1: A Study to Find a Suitable Dose of Zongertinib Used Alone and in Combination With Other Treatments to Test Whether it Helps People With Different Types of HER2+ Cancer That Has Spread
- CapeOX Combined With Bevacizumab Plus Anti-PD1 Antibody as Neoadjuvant Therapy for Microsatellite Stable Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
- Capecitabine in ER+/HER2-negative Breast Cancer
- Capecitabine/Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy and Cemiplimab With or Without Fianlimab or REGN7075 in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
- Circulating Tumor DNA Guided Boost Therapy in Early Triple Negative Breast Patients With Residual Disease After Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Clinical Study of Second-line Treatment in Advanced Colorectal Cancer With Chemotherapy With Bevacizumab or Cetuximab
- Different Methods of Capecitabine in Patients With Non-PCR After Neoadjuvant Therapy for TNBC
- Efficacy and Safety of Chemotherapy With XELOX (Oxaliplatin + Capecitabine) and Bevacizumab in Combination With Adebrelimab in First-line Treatment of Microsatellite Stable (MSS) Initially Unresectable Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
- Efficacy of Supplement Adjuvant Capecitabine in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer Patients With High Risks
- FOLFOX, Botensilimab, and Balstilimab for the Treatment of Localized Rectal Cancer Before Surgery
- Gene Signatures to Guide HR+MBC Therapy in a Diverse Cohort
- Induction Chemotherapy Combined With Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy for MSS Colon Cancer
- JS212 Combination Therapies in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
- MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Organ Preservation in Rectal Cancer
- Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Sequential Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI) Therapy in Locally Advanced Colon Cancer
- Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With PD-1 Inhibitors Combined With SIB-IMRT in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
- Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Excision And Observation vs Chemoradiotherapy For Rectal Cancer
- Node-sparing Radiotherapy Combined With Total Neoadjuvant CAPOX and Sintilimab for MSS Middle and Low Rectal Cancer
- Organ Preservation in Rectal AdenoCa Using Hypofractionated Pelvic RT(Hypo-OPRA)
- Organoid-based Functional Precision Therapy for Advanced Breast Cancer
- PACE: PD-1 Antibody For dMMR/MSI-H Stage III Colorectal Cancer
- PET Dynamics to Response-Adapted Neoadjuvant Therapy in TNBC
- Patient Derived Organoid-guided Personalized Treatment Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice in Breast Cancer
- PhII Randomized CAPecitabine + ELAcestrant vs. Capecitabine Alone in ER+ Breast Cancer (CAPELA)
- Phase 1 Study of a Self-amplifying RNA Vaccine (ITI-5000) in Stage 2-3 Triple Negative Breast Cancer
- Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy With CApecitabine and Temozolomide in MGMT Silenced, MSS, Locally Advanced RecTal Cancer
- Preoperative, Proton- Radiotherapy Combined With Chemotherapy for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer
- Proton Radiation for Unresectable, Borderline Resectable, or Medically Inoperable Carcinoma of the Pancreas
- RO7771950 Versus Tucatinib in Combination With Trastuzumab and Capecitabine in People With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer That is Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)-Positive
- Radiotherapy + Systemic Therapy as Conversion Therapy for pMMR/MSS T4M0 Colon Cancer(Neo-Color)
- Randomized Controlled Study of Plasma ctDNA Methylation-Guided Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage I/Low-Risk Stage II Colorectal Cancer
- Randomized Study of Plasma ctDNA Methylation to Guide Adjuvant Chemotherapy Decisions in High-Risk T3N0 Colorectal Cancer
- SCRT-NALIRIXELOX+Sintilimab as TNT for High-Risk LARC
- Sacituzumab Govitecan in Combination With Capecitabine for Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancers After Progression on Standard Therapy
- Sacituzumab Tirumotecan (MK-2870) Plus Pembrolizumab Versus TPC in TNBC Who Did Not Achieve pCR (MK-2870-012)
- Serial Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Monitoring During Adjuvant Capecitabine in Early Triple-negative Breast Cancer
- Serplulimab Combined With CAPEOX + Celecoxib as Neoadjuvant Treatment for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
- Short Course Radiation Therapy and Combination Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Stage II-III Rectal Cancer
- Short-course Radiotherapy Combined With CapeOx and PD-1 Inhibitor After Local Excision for High-risk Early Rectal Cancer (TORCH-LE)
- Sintilimab Versus Mitomycin in Combination With Capecitabine and IMRT for Limited-stage Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Study of Dato-DXd as Monotherapy and in Combination With Anti-cancer Agents in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumours (TROPION-PanTumor03)
- Study of JSKN016 Combination Therapy in Inoperable Locally Advanced or Metastatic HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
- Study of Patritumab Deruxtecan Plus Pembrolizumab With Other Anticancer Agents in Participants With High-Risk Early-Stage Triple-Negative or Hormone Receptor-Low Positive/HER-2 Negative Breast Cancer (MK-1022-010, HERTHENA-Breast-03)
- Study of SKB264 for Locally Advanced, Recurrent or Metastatic HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
- Study of Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy and Pembrolizumab Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice in Patients With Triple Negative Breast Cancer Who Have Residual Invasive Disease After Surgery and Neoadjuvant Therapy (ASCENT-05/AFT-65 OptimICE-RD/GBG 119/NSABP B-63)
- Study to Evaluate the Use of Capecitabine in Monotherapy and in Combination With Oxaliplatin in Elderly Patients as Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Colorectal Cancer.
- Testing Higher Dose Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
- Testing the Addition of an Anti-Cancer Drug, ZEN003694, to the Usual Chemotherapy Treatment (Capecitabine) for Metastatic or Unresectable Cancers
- Testing the Use of Chemotherapy After Surgery for High-Risk Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
- The Combination of Hypofractionated Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy in Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer
- The Efficacy and Safety of Pyrotinib, Trastuzumab Combined With Taxanes in the Treatment of Trastuzumab-treated HER2+ Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC).
- The Efficacy and Safety of Short-course Radiation Combined With Adebrelimab and CAPEOX Neo-adjuvant Therapy for Organ-retention in Patients With MSS/pMMR Ultra Low Rectal Adenocarcinoma
- Trial Studying Chemotherapy in Nigerian Women With Triple Negative Breast Cancer
- Tucatinib, Trastuzumab and Capecitabine With Brain and/or Spinal Radiotherapy (XRT) in Patients With HER2+, HER2 Mutated and/or HER2-amplified Metastatic Breast Cancer and Leptomeningeal Disease: A Multi-centre Phase II, Single Arm Feasibility Study
- Upfront Trastuzumab-Deruxtecan Plus Capecitabine and Bevacizumab for Patients With HER-2 Positive Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.
- Valproic Acid/Simvastatin Plus Gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel Based Regimens in Untreated Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Patients
- YL202 Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice in Patients With HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
- Zunsemetinib in Combination With Capecitabine in Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive and HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer With Bone Metastasis
Common questions
Is Capecitabine FDA-approved?
Yes, marketed as capecitabine. Its FDA label carries a boxed warning.
How many recruiting trials involve Capecitabine?
89 recruiting trials across 15 conditions.
Is this list of trials complete?
No. For the full record, search ClinicalTrials.gov.