{"id":12683,"date":"2019-02-20T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12683"},"modified":"2019-02-20T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:49:17","slug":"with-one-manufacturer-and-little-money-to-be-made-supplies-of-a-critical-cancer-drug-are-dwindling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12683","title":{"rendered":"With one manufacturer and little money to be made, supplies of a critical cancer drug are dwindling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meghana Keshavan for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">B<\/span><\/span>ob Field was set to kick off his second course of BCG \u2014 a potent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/01\/14\/checkpoint-inhibitors-which-cancer-patients-helped\/\">immunotherapy<\/a>\u00a0that treats his fast-growing bladder cancer. Instead, the New York City banking executive got a call from his urologist\u2019s office, canceling that week\u2019s appointment: They were running low on vials of BCG and rationing their dwindling supplies. Field was no longer eligible.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/02\/20\/supplies-bladder-cancer-drug-bcg-dwindling\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) Bob Field was set to kick off his second course of BCG \u2014 a potent\u00a0immunotherapy\u00a0that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12684,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}