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Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics, and now US cancer patients can’t get meds.

July 5, 2023

Allen A. KFF Health News. June 21, 2023.

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A variety of supply-chain, quality control, and economic factors complicate access to medications due to drug shortages that put patients at risk. This article discusses specific systemic weaknesses in the drug development process that are reducing the safety of cancer medication therapy in the United States.

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