Patients lives being put at risk due to ‘worst stock shortage’, warns pharmacists
Cancer patients are skipping meals in order to ration a vital medicine that has been difficult to get hold of due to ongoing shortages.
Pharmacists have warned of the struggles they are facing to source Creon – a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT), which helps people living with conditions such as cystic fibrosis, pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer to digest food.