about the shortage of critically important cancer medicine. as a doctor, you never want to deny your patients any sort of treatment, but last year alone doctors here in the united states had to tell more than a half a million cancer patients that one of those medicine was used to treat patients with ovarian cancer like this woman, i met her last november. you feel like you are in a fight with one hand tied behind your back. we said let s go with what we have and see what happens. the cancer rapidly recurred. this week, there s a temporary fix. the fda announced they will allow a replacement drug. it s virtually identical and imported from india. renee will likely be put on this medication. it doesn t solve the larger problem of the shortages. case and point, another trug in short supply is methotrexate. it s used for childhood cancers. they found an additional supplier and various companies agreed to increase production. a family said this may not solve their problems. th
science are have to offer us. first, news i want to share about the shortage of cancer medicatio medications. you never want to deny patients treatment. doctors had to tell half a million cancer patients the drugs they needed weren t available. we are not talking about the developing world, we are talking right here at home. one of those medicines was doxal. it s used to treat women with ovarian cancer like renee. i met her last november. you feel like you are in a fight with one hand tied behind your back. we said let s go with what we have and see what happens. the cancer rapidly recured. this week, there s a temporary fix. the fda announced they will allow a replacement drug. it s virtually identical and imported from india. renee will likely be put on this medication. it doesn t solve the larger problem of the shortages. case and point, another trug in short supply is methotrexate. it s used for childhood cancers. they found an additional supplier and various companie