TORONTO - Four Ontario hospitals are in the process of contacting nearly 1,000 cancer patients who received lower than intended doses of chemotherapy drugs.
Cancer Care Ontario says the drugs involved were cyclophosphamide and gemcitabine.
At total of 990 patients treated or being treated at London Health Sciences Centre, Windsor Regional Hospital, Lakeridge Health and Peterborough Regional Health Centre are affected. Cancer Care Ontario says affected patients are being encouraged to discuss the possible effects of the underdosing with their oncologists.
The two medications were purchased by the hospitals from a supplier and Cancer Care Ontario and the hospitals are working with the supplier to find the cause of the error.
When the problem was discovered in late March, all four hospitals immediately removed the medications and informed the manufacturer of the error.
Each hospital has secured new supplies of the medications and Cancer Care Ontario says patients' treatment cycles will not be interrupted.
Via: HuffingtonPost