Posted on 06/10/2023 7:29:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Cancer centers are contending with shortages of key chemotherapy drugs, with potentially dire consequences once the scarcity starts hitting patients.
A new survey released this week by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) found that 93 percent of cancer centers are reporting shortages of carboplatin and 70 percent are reporting shortages of cisplatin. These two drugs are commonly used together to treat a wide variety of cancers — including breast, lung, prostate and many types of leukemias — often with the aim of curing them.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Much of the current shortages stem from a major interruption in manufacturing that occurred when a facility in India, run by Intas Pharmaceuticals, halted production in March after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered a “cascade of failures” in the plant’s quality control.
The FDA issued an import alert to the facility last week, stating all future shipments originating from the facility would be denied admission into the U.S. except for 24 drugs that are in short supply, including carboplatin and cisplatin.
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The quality control failures aren’t described, so let the speculation begin.
My guess is...... bureaucrats getting in the way of supply chains.
Cloward-Piven. Everywhere All At Once.
I can’t begin to tell you how toxic and barbaric cisplatin is. It negatively affects every, and I do mean every, system in your body. It temporarily (3 to 4 months) kills your taste, and it changes the way things taste for ever. And it also probably saved my life. Still, I don’t recommend it.
The Jab was designed to enhance cancer susceptibility, and to turbocharge what cancer is there. Yes, they really are trying to kill us all.
The U.S. relies on India and China to manufacture drugs; many of which are life saving or life sustaining. When millions are at risk of death, you might actually think it would be a national security issue. It’s NOT isolationist to manufacture and produce the things needed to sustain and live modern life in the U.S.
My husband was given cisplatin (for liver cancer) - he was VERY hesitant after reading up on all the side effects.
Husband took it for two rounds and then quit - I couldn’t blame him and supported him. The doctor told us “cis” is a five out of five on the scale of wretched side effects. But, it did shrink his tumor so it could be operated on, giving him several more years of life that he wouldn’t have had.
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If this country doesn’t correct its current course soon, there will be shortages of many important things a few years from now. Among the most painful shortages will be electricity and medicines.
what we are seeing across the board in all sectors is deliberate
with America's printed, fiat, centrally-issued Federal Reserve currency, America's most important commodity is MONEY. Its no longer goods, technology, or services. Its about controlling the issuance and flows of money.
China and India produce hundreds of thousands of engineers a year. But the stupid reply I hear is: "yeah, but they are only good at copying stuff."
Doubtful, but even if true, when you have hundreds of thousands of new ones every year, you will find quite a few brilliant ones among such a large group. And they are nonetheless producing your medicines and medical equipment, building your communications, making your materials, etc. etc.
Where do America's elite students go? Finance, consulting, social-media - and woke government
Its not sustainable.
THE problem is that our selected govt officials have let China and other countries dominate the pharmaceutical industry and now 90% or more of our drugs are NOT made in this country..(antibiotics for sure)...
the politicians hate us, and are not working for us, and infact, working against us....
It’s NOT isolationist to manufacture and produce the things needed to sustain and live modern life in the U.S.
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Free traders won’t like this comment, but they also don’t have a solution to this problem.
Our supply chains are stretched too far into Asia & Eurasia.(east west trade routes)
They need to be readjusted in a Western Hemispheric direction.(north south trade routes)
It won’t be easy & may never happen, but there needs to be some incremental changes to the way we’ve been doing business over the last 40 or 50 years.
It's not just just drugs. Atlas is shrugging. (Or at least he's beginning to wake up from his slumber.)
(Who thought it was a good idea to make our drugs in India, where they still **** on the streets?)
Global warming. Trump’s fault. Putin’s shortage.
Anything but Chomo Joe and Government’s fault.
Sorry to hear that. Yes I know a few people who went chemo rounds, I don’t know if they took cisplatin, but my God, it was like they got hit by a locomotive to the point where it seemed to me like the doctors were trying to kill them to cure the cancer, it’s insane. 2023 and they are still using over 100 year old methods to treat cancer: Poison and radiation.
We now rely on other countries to produce medicine for us, grow food for us, even answer our phone calls to customer service. We import workers from other countries. We are increasingly reliant on foreigners. If other countries wanted to bring down the U.S., they could do so without firing a shot. All they’d need to do is stop producing for us or poison our food and medicine.
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