Refreshments will be served before the meeting.
Attendance is free of charge and open to the public.
TSS members are encouraged to bring friends and family and to invite other interested persons. Taxol, one of the most promising anticancer drugs to come along in decades, first gained prominence when it demonstrated phenomenal success against advanced ovarian cancer, significantly shrinking tumors in 30 to 40 percent of cases. Later, it showed promise against other kinds of cancer as well. The problem was that taxol had to be extracted from the bark of Pacific yew trees, which grow scattered throughout the old-growth forests of the northwestern United States. The trees grow slowly, taking as long as 200 years to reach 40 feet in height.