Pediatric cancer doctors are sounding the alarm about a short supply, or dwindling supply, of these chemotherapy drugs for children: carboplatin and cisplatin, vinblastine, dacarbazine, and methotrexate.
Oncologists have been forced to make difficult choices about treatments since early February when supplies began to dwindle.
“When kids have cancer, they’re not given a smaller dose. They’re given the thing you or I would get as full-grown adults,” said Dixon. “Immediately after he got the diagnosis, the doctors are explaining to you like, here are all the side effects, the chemotherapy that will save your child, hopefully, will also cause horrific side effects up to and including new cancers.”
“They’ve been successful in some adult cancers and there’s a great deal of attention now being paid to developing these immunotherapeutic approaches for pediatric cancers; cancers where we can harness the body’s immune system to fight the tumor more effectively,” said Dr. Michelle Le Beau, chief scientific officer at The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
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