CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced that it has initiated patient enrollment in an open-label, multi-center Phase 1b clinical trial evaluating tivozanib in combination with oral capecitabine (Xeloda®) in patients with certain advanced solid tumors. This is one of several combination trials ongoing to explore the potential use of tivozanib in combination with leading targeted therapies and chemotherapeutic regimens in multiple cancers including kidney, colorectal and breast cancers.