The following information has been received by ANCO.
****ASCO NEWS****
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Society for Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) have recently reported a shortage of cisplatin 1 mg/mL injections. The shortage has been reported by the three manufacturers; Bedford, Teva, and APP. APP currently has some availability, and Teva is on backorder with an expected release date sometime in January 2009. At this time Bedford is backordered and no release date is being provided.
The shortage of Leucovorin remains and no additional information on the manufacturing delays or release dates have been provided by Bedford or Teva.
More detailed information on these shortages can be found at the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/shortages/default.htm#Current and the ASHP website at http://www.ashp.org/DrugShortages/Current/.
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