#Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis

#Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis

Cancer centers are contending with shortages of key chemotherapy drugs, with potentially dire consequences once the scarcity starts hitting patients. A new survey released this week by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) found that 93 percent of cancer centers are reporting shortages of carboplatin and 70 percent are reporting shortages of cisplatin. These two…

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#Q&A with the surgeons who developed a world-first brain tumour treatment

#Q&A with the surgeons who developed a world-first brain tumour treatment

“Q&A with the surgeons who developed a world-first brain tumour treatment” In early January, a team of researchers and physicians from Toronto’s Sunnybrook and SickKids hospitals completed the first step in a world-first clinical trial of a new treatment for pediatric brain cancer. They used MRI-guided ultrasound to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapy…

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