Taxol

Sometimes prescribed under the brand name Taxol, paclitaxel is used to treat common malignancies including those originating in the ovaries and lungs.

Other prominent examples of drugs derived from natural products currently used today include the anti-fungal amphotericin B, isolated from the soil bacteria Streptomyces nodosus, the chemotherapy taxol, isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, and the immunosuppressant cyclosporin, isolated from the fungus Tolypocladium inflatum.

I preferred her irritable and snappy, her hair done up in pins, scolding me for forgetting her Taxol.

And then she would send me out to buy Taxol, patting me on the shoulder.

Called Abraxane, it was a redesigned version of a top-selling cancer drug called Taxol.