Many doctors report trouble getting cancer drugs

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Many doctors report trouble getting cancer drugs

By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than eight in 10 U.S. cancer specialists have struggled to find the drugs they need to best treat their patients, a new survey has found. Such drug shortages could affect people with colon cancer, breast cancer and leukemia. They include chemotherapy drugs prescribed after a tumor has spread. "These are drugs used for common and curable cancers," Dr. Keerthi Gogineni of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia told Reuters Health.

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