Taxol
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Description: What is Taxol?
How does it work?
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History: Discovery and Development
Problems and Final Product
Importance, Social and Economic Impact
Advantages and Disadvantages
Careers & Training
References
Advantages
Taxol is now obtained from the needles of yew trees, which make it environmentally safe AND a renewable source.
Taxol not only kills the cancer cells, it also reduces the size of the tumor, a phenomenon is is very rare.
Taxol is highly effective against advanced ovarian cancer and metastatic breast cancer.
Taxol is easily administered; it is done vie an IV monitor.
Disadvantages (current)
Many times the taxol drug jst bounces off the cancer tumor, doing little or no damage to it.
It decreases your blood cells, which puts you at risk of infection or other diseases.
As with almost any other type of chemotherpy, use of taxol is also results in hair loss.
Use of taxol may also result in nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.