Cancer drug joins list of medicines in short supply

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Nov 14 2011

Los Angeles Times: Cancer Drug Doxil Joins Growing List Of Drugs In Short Supply
A crucial cancer drug has been in short supply since midsummer - and its maker, Johnson & Johnson Inc., has not been able to remedy the situation since. The medicine, Doxil, is used to treat patients with ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma or Kaposi's sarcoma after first-line treatments have failed (Adams, 11/14).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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