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Platinum Chemo Shortage Led to Reduced Use, No Change in Mortality

MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2024 – The platinum chemotherapy shortage, first announced on Feb. 10, 2023, resulted in a modest absolute reduction in platinum use, but no difference in mortality, according to a...

Last Year's Platinum-Based Drugs Shortage Didn't Raise Cancer Deaths, Study Found

TUESDAY, Dec. 24, 2024 – When supplies of certain generic, platinum-based cancer chemotherapies dwindled in 2023, oncologists feared it might lead to under-treatment and many more cancer deaths....

New Drug Regimen Extends Survival for Cervical Cancer Patients

THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 – In some good news for women battling locally advanced cervical cancer, new research shows that adding six weeks of chemotherapy to standard treatment cuts the risk of death...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Injectable Products by Mylan: Recall - Presence of Particulate Matter

including certain lots of: Gemcitabine for Injection Carboplatin Injection Methotrexate Injection Cytarabine Injection See the press release for a listing of the product strength, NDC, and lot...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Carboplatin Injection by Hospira: Recall - Visible Particulate Matter Identified

ISSUE: Hospira, Inc. is further informing the general public about a previously communicated voluntary user-level recall of three lots of Carboplatin Injection due to visible particulates identified...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Hospira Injectable Drug Products: Recall - Visible Particulates from Defective Glass Vials

Including certain lots of the following products: carboplatin cytarabine paclitaxel methotrexate [Posted 07/16/2012] ISSUE: Hospira and FDA notified healthcare professional of a nationwide recall...

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