Profile: Sanofi-aventis is a healthcare company. We provide products for thrombosis, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and central nervous system disorders. Our product Eloxatin® is the only platinum agent indicated both for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer & for the adjuvant treatment of stage III colon cancer. Our product Taxotere® a drug in the taxoid class of chemotherapeutic agents, inhibits cancer cell division by essentially freezing the cell's internal skeleton, which is comprised of microtubules. Microtubules assemble and disassemble during a cell cycle. Taxotere® promotes the assembly & blocks the disassembly, thereby preventing many cancer cells from dividing & resulting in death in some cancer cells.