Docetaxel is a chemotherapeutic agent known as a taxane. Taxanes are a range of drugs that all come from a group of trees called yew trees – the scientific name for this group is ‘Taxus.’ Docetaxal comes from a product extracted from the European Yew Tree, a renewable variety. Docetaxel may be given in one or more regimens, which are schedules for giving certain kinds of drug.
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