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US doctors forced to ration as cancer drug shortages hit nationwide

Author:     Madeline Halpert
Source:     BBC (U.K.)
Publication Date:     7 June 2023
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Stephan:  

The American illness profit system is so ethically compromised it could be considered evil. This article describes the tragic shortage of cancer drugs in this country. You have cancer, you are one of thousands with similar illnesses, and your life is at risk because you can’t get the drugs your treatment requires.This in the richest country in the world. And why is there a shortage? Because the drugs are so cheap they don’t make enough profit for the pharmaceutical corporations to focus on meeting the need. And is the Congress doing anything to help? No the Republicans who control the House are fetishizing over Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary Clinton’s emails, and censuring Adam Schiff

Toni Dezomits has had to change her ovarian cancer treatment plan due to a shortage of chemotherapy drugs

Toni Dezomits, a 55-year-old retired law enforcement officer, is fighting a recurrence of her stage 4 ovarian cancer. She had already undergone several rounds of chemotherapy when her doctor told her she had some more bad news.

Just a day before her third round of treatment last month, Ms Dezomits was told there was a nationwide shortage of the generic chemotherapy drug, carboplatin – one of three medications she was meant to receive.

Forced to choose between going without the medication or swapping it for another with stronger side effects, the North Carolina native is finishing her final three chemotherapy sessions with only two of the recommended drugs.

“You have these two sub-optimal choices,” she said. “I’m worried, because I know the drug I’m not getting is the one my cancer responded to very well [the first time].”

Experts say the US is currently suffering one of the most severe shortages of chemotherapy drugs it’s seen for three decades.

Ms Dezomits is one […]

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