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US cancer drug shortage forces doctors to ration life-saving treatments

US cancer drug shortage forces doctors to ration life-saving treatments

A severe shortage of cancer therapies is forcing thousands of patients to miss life-saving treatments, several leading healthcare organisations have warned.

There are 14 oncology medicines listed “in shortage” by US regulators, including the generic chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, which are first-line treatments for many common types of cancer.

Julie Gralow, chief medical officer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology,…


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