(ANSA) - Florence, July 4 - A bladder cancer drug is lacking
in Florence and is being sought abroad, Tuscany Governor Enrico
Rossi said Thursday.
Some 25 patients have been left without treatment because of
the lack of the chemotherapy drug mitomycin, he said.
Mitomycin is a chemotherapy drug used to treat different
cancers including breast, bladder, gullet (oesophagus), stomach,
pancreas, lung, anal and liver cancers.
Mitomycin is given into a vein.
You usually have it as an outpatient or during a hospital
stay.
Bladder cancer drug lacking in Florence
25 patients not being treated says Governor Rossi