What Next TBD: The Never-Ending Cancer Drug Shortage

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:35.8	Hey there, Interwebs.
0:40.3	I hope everyone's having a good night, right?
0:42.4	Oh, my eyes look real dark in this lighting.
0:43.4	That's rad.
0:46.1	This is a TikTok from a man named Chuck Jackson.
0:48.2	His handle is Chuck fights cancer,
0:51.8	where he chronicles his treatment for squamous cell carcinoma.
0:59.7	The thing I want to talk about a little bit is this carboplan and other chemo drug shortage that's out there.
1:00.8	I try to do a little research on this, and I can't really find much on there other than
1:04.8	there's been more than 40 states in the U.S. so far that have run into this shortage.
1:10.0	Jackson's TikTok is from the end of May, and since then, the shortages of cancer drugs,
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