It is used alone or incombination with other cancer treatments in patients with colon cancer that hasspread (Stage III) to help prevent colon cancer from coming back after surgery.It is also used together with other cancer treatments and radiation treatment,around the time of surgery, to treat rectal cancer that has spread. Thismedicine is also used alone or in combination with other cancer treatments totreat colorectal cancer that has spread or cannot be removed by surgery. Capecitabineis also used together with docetaxel to treat breast cancer that has spreadthroughout the body in patients who have received other medicines (eg,anthracycline medicine) that did not worked well. This medicine is also usedalone to treat breast cancer in patients who are not able to receiveanthracycline medicine or taxane medicine.