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Yew Collection for Cancer Drug Ends: 'We Had Built Something Beautiful'

Summary by Omroep Brabant
The Taxus Taxi Foundation is shutting down. For years, volunteers drove through Cuijk and the surrounding area to collect yew cuttings. The needle-like leaves of the hedge plant contain the raw material for chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer. Now, it turns out another yew species is much more effective, and it doesn't grow here. "It definitely hurt, because we built something wonderful," says Werner Toonen, founder of the Taxus Taxi Foundat…
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The Taxus Taxi Foundation is shutting down. For years, volunteers drove through Cuijk and the surrounding area to collect yew cuttings. The needle-like leaves of the hedge plant contain the raw material for chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer. Now, it turns out another yew species is much more effective, and it doesn't grow here. "It definitely hurt, because we built something wonderful," says Werner Toonen, founder of the Taxus Taxi Foundat…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news in on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
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