two new drugs for advanced breast cancer

Roche is introducing two new drugs for advanced breast cancer...Xeloda (capecitabine) and Herceptin (trastuzumab).

Xeloda is a prodrug of 5-FU (5-fluorouracil).

It's taken ORALLY and metabolized to 5-FU in tumour cells.

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