| Also known as ground hemlock, the plant contains paclitaxel, a compound used to make Taxol, the best selling chemotherapy drug in the world. |
| Chemotherapy usually consists of a combination of agents, such as hexamethylmelamine, doxorubicin, cisplatin, carboplatin, and paclitaxel. |
| The drug, Paclitaxel, is meant to prevent restenosis, the narrowing of the arterial walls after a stent is inserted to unblock an artery. |
| Standard dosages of paclitaxel and carboplatin will be delivered with escalating dosages of REOLYSIN intravenously. |
| The newest stents are made of metal coated with a cytostatic agent such as sirolimus or paclitaxel. |
| In preclinical and clinical studies at cytostatic doses, paclitaxel has demonstrated promising results for reducing the processes leading to restenosis. |
