Concern grows as Memphis cancer centers face chemo drug shortages
A growing shortage of common cancer treatments is forcing doctors to switch medications and delaying care at Memphis area cancer centers and nationwide. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network said nearly all the centers it surveyed were dealing with shortages of the chemotherapies carboplatin and cisplatin. (Gerry Broome/AP file)
“Treatments are being skipped and delayed, doses are being reduced, treatment plans are being changed, and sequences of usual treatment are being altered,” said Dr. Sylvia Richey, chief medical officer at West Cancer Center & Research Institute.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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