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1-Taxol (paclitaxel)

The amount isolated from three trees is required for
treatment of one cancer patient

  Uses:
  *Drug-resistant ovarian cancer
  *Breast cancer FDA approval(1994)
  *small-cell lung cancer
  *Squamous cancers of the head and neck
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