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.