Drugmakers drop generics: US cancer patients can't get meds OncTwitter TwitteRx
June 21, 2023
The problem isn't new, and that's particularly infuriating to many clinicians. President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of an aggressive brain cancer, has focused his on discovering cures — undoubtedly expensive ones. Indeed, existing brand-name cancer drugs often cost tens of thousands of dollars a year.
"It's just a travesty that this is the level of health care in the United States of America right now," said Stephen Divers, an oncologist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who in recent weeks has had to delay or change treatment for numerous bladder, breast, and ovarian cancer patients because his clinic cannot find enough cisplatin and carboplatin.
"They don't think it will have a negative impact on her treatment, but as far as I am aware, there isn't any scientific basis to make that conclusion," he said."As you can imagine, when they gave us such low odds of her beating this cancer, it feels like we want to give it everything we can and not something short of the standard."
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