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Cancer drug shortage crisis: 'We have been burned before'

Betsy Neiser was being treated for advanced ovarian cancer with Doxil, a tumour-shrinking drug she thought she could take indefinitely – but then her doctor told her they had run outSince Betsy Neiser, a lawyer and mother of two from Leverett, Massachusetts, was first diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in July 2002, she has had three recurrences, each successfully treated with chemotherapy.After the last recurrence, in the summer of 2009, her cancer began to grow again, so she was put on Doxil, a mainstay chemo drug for recurrent ovarian cancer. Her...

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Published By: MedWorm/RelationshipIssues - Wednesday, 22 February

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