Bladder Cancer and Chemotherapy Drug Shortages

In an important and timely podcast, host Rick Bangs talks with Dr. Gopa Iyer, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he is section head for urothelial cancer. They discuss the disturbing shortage of platinum-based chemotherapy drugs for bladder cancer patients, most commonly called cisplatin and carboplatin.

They cover:

• Why these drugs are in short supply
• Short and long-term solutions for the shortages
• When the shortages began
• How they impact patients who have muscle invasive bladder cancer
• What options bladder cancer patients have
• What the US Food and Drug Administration is doing to solve the shortages