BLOOMBERG OPINION – Imagine a future where far fewer women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and women with a family history of breast cancer don’t have to make the difficult, even devastating choice to get a preventive mastectomy. Instead, women would get a series of shots that teach their immune systems how to quash breast […]
Two of the most widely used cancer drugs are in short supply amid one of the worst chemotherapy shortages in decades, forcing clinics across the US to ration the lifesaving medicines. Centers are altering treatment regimens, restricting the therapies to the cases most likely to be cured or sending patients…
A survey of cancer centers found that the majority of large centers are facing cisplatin and carboplatin shortages, and some are changing or delaying treatment because of it.