Product Description

Capsy 500mg Tablet is a chemotherapy medication containing capecitabine. It is used to treat rectal, colon, gastric, and breast cancers. It is also used for the prevention of new occurrences of cancer in the colon after the complete removal of the tumor by surgery. Cancer is a disease in which cells multiply in an abnormal and uncontrolled manner. It can be used alone or in combination with other cancer medicines. Talk to your doctor if you have brain diseases, diabetes, eye problems, severe skin reaction, heart problems, kidney diseases, liver diseases, and imbalances in calcium. 

Capsy 500mg Tablet is not recommended for children and adolescents. Ask for physician advice if you are intolerant to sugars as this chemotherapy medication contains lactose. You will not be given Capsy 500mg Tablet if you have low white blood cell or platelet count, chickenpox, shingles, or enzyme DPD deficiency (dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase). Take this medicine within thirty minutes after finishing a meal.

How to use

Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Capsy 500mg Tablet is to be taken with food.

Uses

Treatment of Breast cancer
Treatment of Colorectal cancer

Side Effects

Serious: 

• Severe bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain
• Heart problems (chest pain, shortness of breath, feeling faint, irregular heartbeat, sudden weight gain)
• Loss of too much body fluid, kidney failure
• Serious skin and mouth reactions (skin peeling, blisters)
• Hand and foot syndrome (swelling, changes in sensation of hands and feet)
• Liver problems
• Decreased blood count

Common:

• Loss of appetite
• Weight loss
• Insomnia, depression
• Headache, dizziness
• Eye irritation, redness, increased tears
• Inflammation of veins
• Runny nose, fever
• Infections
• Hair loss

Storage

Store below 30℃