Taxol

Taxol is a chemotherapy medication, and it can be used to treat some forms of cancer, such as breast and lung cancer.

With it, cells stop dividing and die off, reducing the number of cancer cells in your body.

It also blocks the blood supply to tumors for short periods.

Indications include metastatic or advanced unresectable NSCLC/Non-small cell lung cancer; Metastatic Breast Cancer with Progressive disease after anthracycline-chemotherapy; Locally Advanced Breast Cancer who are postmenopausal (not receiving Hormone Replacement Therapy) と 1 に 3 positive margins; Stage II or III MBC following previous radiation therapy or if a patient cannot undergo surgery but may derive benefit from ADJUVANT therapy.

Taxol has several medical applications, including treating breast cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer.

In addition to its principal use in anticancer therapy, it is being studied to treat HIV infection.

Successfully marketed synthetic derivative from yew needles inhibits mitosis by binding to tubulin but not disrupting microtubule assembly or stability while preserving membrane potential and metabolic activity.

Used systemically for the treatment of solid tumors including cancers of the prostate gland, 卵巣, endometrium and lung and leukemia and multiple myeloma; also used top.