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I believe the chemo tablets your husband is taking might be CAP/TEM a pill version of chemo. If they are, everyone tolerates CAP/TEM differently. My wife only had a few side effects in the first cycle, after that for 8 more cycles. It helped her in our case with significant reduction in the size of the tumors which then allowed for surgery to get the primary tumor on the pancreas.