| 20110246079 | INDIVIDUAL 5-FLUOROURACILE DOSE OPTIMIZATION IN FOLFOX TREATMENT - The present invention belongs to the field of improved personalized medicine. More precisely, the present invention relates to a method for progressively optimizing the 5-FU dose administered by continuous infusion in patients treated by a FOLFOX regimen or a similar regimen, based on the 5-FU plasmatic concentration measured during the previous 5-FU continuous infusion and on a herein described decision algorithm. The present invention also relates to a method for treating a cancer patient in which the 5-FU dose administered in continuous infusion in each FOLFOX or similar treatment cycle is optimized using the decision algorithm according to the invention. | 10-06-2011 |
