The FDA says more than a dozen cancer drugs are in short supply, including Carboplatin.
Her sister, Kattia, lives in New York and flies back and forth.
"It is very, very difficult to show up one day, and to have the doctor tell you that the medicine is not available that could save your life is unexplainable to me.""The doctor is literally in tears telling her that her medicine is not available," Solano said. "At that point, they had to figure out what to do next, which in her case, to shift her to another treatment," Perez said.
"My mother's been such a trooper. She's just been so strong, but this was a really difficult moment for her. She just started to cry."There are at least 10 lifesaving chemo drugs currently on the FDA's drug shortage list. "As institutions start to run out of chemotherapy or recognize that the shortage is going to be a little more prolonged, they'll start rationing the amount of product they're using. They'll change patients to alternative treatments," Michael Ganio of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists said."For citizens of the United States, being one of the most powerful countries in the world, this should not be happening!" Solano said.
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