By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Young cancer patients who couldn't get a key medicine because of a national drug shortage were more likely to suffer a relapse than others who were able to get the preferred treatment, doctors report. It's the first evidence that a long-standing drug-supply problem probably has affected cancer treatment results in specific patients.
"When your child has cancer you live day by day," and to find out a life-saving medicine isn't available is "very, very frightening," Katie Alonzo said.
After eight weeks of treatment with the preferred drug, "she was doing wonderfully," said her mother, Katie Alonzo.
