{"id":4865,"date":"2025-06-25T23:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/generic-cancer-drugs-fail-quality-tests-puts-patients-at-risk-tibj-study-says\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T23:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:02:06","slug":"generic-cancer-drugs-fail-quality-tests-puts-patients-at-risk-tibj-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/generic-cancer-drugs-fail-quality-tests-puts-patients-at-risk-tibj-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic cancer drugs used around the world fail quality tests, investigation shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generic cancer drugs used around the world fail quality tests, investigation shows
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Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, putting cancer patients in more than 100 countries<\/a> at risk of ineffective treatments and potentially fatal side effects, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism<\/a> (TBIJ) reveals.<\/p>\n

The generic drugs in question form the backbone of treatment plans for numerous common cancers \u2014 including breast, ovarian, and leukemia. Some drugs contained so little of their key ingredient that pharmacists said giving them to patients would be as good as doing nothing. Other drugs, containing too much of the active ingredient, create the risk of severe organ damage or even death. \u201cBoth scenarios are horrendous,\u201d said one pharmacist. \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n Paul Eccles, Andjela Milivojevic, and and Ramu Sapkota \u2014 TBIJ
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Generic cancer drugs used around the world fail quality tests, investigation shows Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, putting cancer patients in more than 100 countries at risk of ineffective treatments and potentially fatal side effects, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reveals. The generic drugs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2159,2540,1428,2155],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-global-health","category-health","category-pharmaceuticals","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}