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Cancer drug shortage is forcing doctors to decide which patients get treatment

Por: ABC News Health June 02, 2023

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Just six weeks ago, Greg DeStefano began a new 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... + full article



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