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This medicinal product is used for treatment of cancer. It can be cancer in the ovaries or breast cancer (advanced or spreading ovarian cancer, advanced or spreading breast cancer). This medicinal product may also be used for a special cancer in the lungs (advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, NSCLC) in patients who cannot be treated with surgery and/or radiotherapy. Paclitaxel may also be used for a special cancer, called Kaposi's sarcoma, which may be associated with AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) caused by an HIV disease) where other treatments i.e. liposomal anthracyclines have not worked.
Paclitaxel works by stopping cell division and is used to prevent the growth of cancer cells.
