Coral

Coral Reefs 

Components Of Coral Reef 

Importance Of Coral Reef

Medicine From Coral Reef 

Medicines derived from Coral Reef 

Halaven 

In 2004, Boston native, Arden O’Connor, was diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer, and was subsequently told she likely had less than a year to live. When she was interviewed in 2012 about being cancer-free eight years after her initial diagnosis, she attributed everything to Ara-C (Figure 1), a chemotherapy medication derived from sponges common to coral reefs.¹ For many others with leukemia, Ara-C has proven to be a widely effective treatment when other treatment plans have been exhausted.

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