Cancer drug shortages continue, worrying providers [Video]

AURORA, Colo. — The drugs many people need to treat their cancer are in short supply.

Drug shortages have impacted the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus for years, but it’s never been this serious, according to Cindy O’Bryant, a clinical pharmacy professor at the CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

“This is a big issue,” O’Bryant said. 

Finding out you have cancer can come as a shock. Finding out the medication you’ll need to treat that cancer is in short supply can feel like a one-two punch.

“We want to treat our patients and we want to treat them really with the best medicine we have,” O’Bryant said. “And when those are not available, we’re kind of pushed into a corner and really have to …