Roszdravnadzor denies lack of anticancer drug
Supplies of capecitabine (an antitumor drug for chemotherapy) in Russia are uninterrupted, the press service of Roszdravnadzor told TASS. In the media there was information about complaints about the lack of the drug.
Supplies of capecitabine (an antitumor drug for chemotherapy) in Russia are uninterrupted, the press service of Roszdravnadzor told TASS. In the media there was information about complaints about the lack of the drug.
According to Roszdravnadzor, now in pharmacies and medical organizations there are more than 77.7 thousand packages of the drug with INN capecitabine. All drugs are domestically produced. More than 230 thousand packages have been put into civilian circulation and are in the warehouses of distributors and manufacturers, the ministry said.
Capecitabine is used in the treatment of cancer of the stomach, esophagus and breast. According to the Telegram channel Mash, cancer patients in Russia complain about the delay in the supply of capecitabine. For some weeks, they can not get the drug for OMS, so they have to buy it at their own expense. According to Mash, the largest parties are purchased for the Voronezh region (817,000), the Moscow region (600 thousand), the Crimea (420 thousand), Moscow (240 thousand) and the Perm Territory (254 thousand).
