FDA Acts to Ease Cancer Drug Shortage

    Facing shortages of as many as 280 drugs, the FDA is acting to make sure two life-saving cancer drugs remain available.

    FOX News Radio White House Correspondent Mike Majchrowitz reports:

    The FDA is acting to make sure two critical cancer drugs remain available despite recent shortages.

    The FDA granting a temporary license to a foreign manufacturer to import Lipodox into the U.S. as a replacement drug for Doxil, which is in low supply. Doxil used to treat ovarian and AIDS related cancers, among others.

    The FDA also approving new sources of preservative-free Methotrexate, used to treat children with acute lymphocytic leukemia and high-dose therapy of osteosarcoma.

    In Washington, Mike Majchrowitz, FOX News Radio

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