What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Never-Ending Cancer Drug Shortage
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A shortage of basic chemotherapy drugs to treat cancer is jeopardizing the care of hundreds of thousands of patients. The drugs aren’t expensive, or patented—so where are they?
Guest: Ed Yong, science journalist at The Atlantic.
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 0:00.0 | I raise for life for my best friend who we lost to soon. |
| 0:04.0 | I raise for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer. |
| 0:08.0 | I raise for life from a dad who's living with prostate cancer. |
| 0:12.0 | I raise for life for everyone who's in cancer. |
| 0:17.0 | Who will you, Raceful? |
| 0:19.0 | Sign up to your local event at raceforlife.org |
| 0:23.0 | And together we will be cancer. |
| 0:27.0 | Impawn the ship with headline sponsors Standard Life. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey there, Interwebs. |
| 0:38.0 | Hope everyone's having a good night, right? |
| 0:40.0 | Oh my eyes look real dark in this lighting. |
| 0:43.0 | That's rad. |
| 0:44.0 | This is a TikTok from a man named Chuck Jackson. |
| 0:46.0 | His handle is Chuck Fights Cancer, |
| 0:48.0 | where he chronicles his treatment for squamous cell carcinoma. |
| 0:52.0 | The thing I wanted to talk about a little bit is this, uh, |
| 0:55.0 | this Carbo plan and other chemo drug shortage that's out there. |
| 1:00.0 | Try to do a little research on this and I can't really find much on there. |
| 1:04.0 | Other than there's been more than 40 states in the US so far they have run into this shortage. |
| 1:09.0 | Jackson's TikTok is from the end of May. |
| 1:12.0 | And since then, the shortages of cancer drugs, basic chemotherapy drugs have gotten so bad |
| 1:19.0 | that they're threatening the care of hundreds of thousands of patients across the country. |
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