US cancer centers warn drug shortages continue, impacting different varieties of medications

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While a shortage of the chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and carboplatin has improved in the U.S., some of the nation's largest cancer centers now report additional concerns related to drug shortages.

While a shortage of the chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and carboplatin has improved in the United States, some of the nation's largest cancer centers now report additional concerns related to drug shortages, a new report finds.

In Hendricks' practice in Maryland, she said that the center is currently experiencing a significant shortage of the chemotherapy drug etoposide, which was named in the new NCCN report. She added that the center received an alert Tuesday about the shortage.

 

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