Paclitaxel 6 mg/ml concentrate for solution for infusion

Paclitaxel Injection is used to treat:

Ovarian cancer:

• as first therapy (after initial surgery in combination with the platinum-containing medicine cisplatin).

• after standard platinum-containing medicines have been tried but did not work.


Breast cancer:

• as first therapy for advanced disease or disease which has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic disease). Paclitaxel Injection is either combined with an anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin) or with a medicine called trastuzumab  (for patients for whom anthracycline is not suitable and whose cancer cells have a protein on their surface called HER 2, see package leaflet of trastuzumab).
• after initial surgery following treatment with anthracycline and cyclophosphamide (AC) as an additional treatment.

• as a second-line treatment for patients who have not responded to standard treatment...