Magarity: I showed up in May to have my chemo, to find out there's a national shortage of carboplatin. Doctors say carboplatin and another chemotherapy drug called cisplatin are the backbone of cancer treatment drugs in America. There's a handful of American companies that go out around the world, and they scour the earth looking for the cheapest generic drugs — cancer treatments or antibiotics. That’s leaving hospitals and clinics scrambling to find critical cancer drugs, and rationing them if they do. Even as Magarity confronts her mortality, she says she’s driven to make sure she and millions of other cancer patients are heard.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2023 23:18 UTC