https://news.yahoo.com/cancer-drug-shortage-forcing-doctors-090624459.html?

Cancer drug shortage is forcing doctors

to decide which patients get treatment

ABC News, by Mary Kekatos

Posted By: AltaD, 6/3/2023 3:33:02 PM

Just six weeks ago, Greg DeStefano began a new chemotherapy combination. The 50-year-old, from Northbrook, Illinois, had recently been diagnosed with his fourth round of cancer and doctors were hopeful the medication would treat the tumors growing in his neck. DeStefano was responding well, but then, in late May, he got a call from his doctor and was told one of the three drugs he was receiving carboplatin was under a global shortage and because of the way the hospital had to prioritize treatments, he wouldn't be qualified to receive it anymore.(Snip) low profit margins for generic versions of these drugs as well as labor and supply chain issues.