capecitabine
Discontinued
The supplier has told the TGA it is permanently stopping supply of this product in Australia. This is not a temporary shortage. Other brands or strengths of the same medicine may still be available, and your doctor or pharmacist can advise on what to do next.
2 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 13 August 2024. Not medical advice.
The TGA does not publish a reason for a shortage, so Voxsanity cannot show one. Nothing on this page is an explanation of why supply is affected — that information is not in the source and is not inferred here.
This is national information. The TGA records shortages for Australia as a whole. There is no state, territory or pharmacy-level stock information in this data, and Voxsanity cannot tell you whether a particular pharmacy has a medicine in stock. Your pharmacist can.
Products affected
Capecitabine Sandoz capecitabine 500mg film coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 201800
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- No longer published The TGA no longer publishes a shortage report for this product, so it is not recorded as being in shortage now. The TGA removes a shortage report from its database some months after the shortage ends. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 29 August 2024 The TGA's dates span 12 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 12 September 2025 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 13 August 2024
What the TGA says is being done
An alternative brand is available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
CAPECITABINE-DRLA capecitabine 500 mg tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 200933
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Discontinued The supplier has told the TGA it is permanently stopping supply of this product in Australia. This is not a temporary shortage. Other brands or strengths of the same medicine may still be available, and your doctor or pharmacist can advise on what to do next.
- Supply
- Reduction in supply until supply is exhausted The supplier reports reduced stock, which will run out and not be replaced.
- TGA impact rating
- Medium impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as medium impact, meaning some people may need to change brand, strength or product while it lasts.
- Reported from
- 31 January 2024
- Expected to be resolved
- The TGA does not publish an end date for this record (it records "Unknown"). Voxsanity does not estimate one.
- TGA last updated
- 27 October 2023
What the TGA says is being done
Other brands are available
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
Terms like ARTG, TGA and PBS are explained in the glossary.
Where this comes from
Source: Medicine Shortage Reports Database, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), © Commonwealth of Australia, reproduced with permission. The TGA does not endorse Voxsanity, and nothing here is presented as a TGA view. Shortage information is free for everyone on this site, with no account and no subscription.
Every product listed above links to the TGA's own shortage record for that product. The TGA's register is organised by product rather than by medicine, so there is no single TGA page covering capecitabine as a whole; to see them together, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type capecitabine into its filter box. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.
Voxsanity last read the register on 16 October 2026.
Not medical advice. Voxsanity republishes public government health data in plain English. Speak to your pharmacist or doctor about your own medicines. Do not stop or change how you take a medicine because of anything on this page.