1 The first bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made from uranium. 2  The bomb dropped on Nagasaki was made from plutonium, which was even more powerful than uranium. 3  It is thought that at least 135,000 people died from the Hiroshima explosion and another 70,000 in Nagasaki.
Pharmacokinetic parameters of paclitaxel following 3- and 24-hour infusions of TAXOL at dose levels of 135 and 175 mg/m2 were determined in a Phase 3 randomized study in ovarian cancer patients and are summarized in the following table.
Your course of paclitaxel and carboplatin. You will have chemotherapy as a course of several sessions (or cycles) of treatment over a few months. Each cycle of paclitaxel and carboplatin usually takes 21 days (three weeks), but this depends on the type of cancer you have. On the first day, you will have paclitaxel and carboplatin. You then have no treatment for the next 20 days. At the end of the 21 days, you start your second cycle of paclitaxel and carboplatin.