Breast cancer - gemcitabine

Gemcitabine, which is combined with another medicine called paclitaxel to treat metastatic breast cancer, is only recommended as a possible treatment for people with metastatic breast cancer in situations where two other treatments could also be used as alternatives. Other treatments that doctors co ...

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Gemcitabine, which is combined with another medicine called paclitaxel to treat metastatic breast cancer, is only recommended as a possible treatment for people with metastatic breast cancer in situations where two other treatments could also be used as alternatives.

Other treatments that doctors could use in the same situation are a medicine called docetaxel (given on its own) and docetaxel combined with another medicine called capecitabine.

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