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John Shumar1, Zachary Junga2, Jeptha T Johnson3
1Internal Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA John.n.shumar.mil@mail.mil.
Abstract:
Chemotherapy-induced diarrhoea (CID) is a risk of antineoplastic regimens, often associated with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), irinotecan and capecitabine. Current treatment guidelines for CID include the use of loperamide and octreotide but do not account for other therapies, including budesonide. Small case reports have shown benefit with budesonide in CID secondary to 5-FU and irinotecan, but there is no literature base addressing budesonide use in CID secondary to capecitabine. We describe a case of a patient with severe capecitabine-induced diarrhoea that was refractory to guideline based therapy but resolved with the use of budesonide.
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