Chemo Drug Shortage Sends Leukemia Doctors Scrambling

" Doctors diagnosed Dwayne -- at tapped it with an aggressive form of leukemia last month I was trying to all born on the seventh. By. The eighteenth there. They're thinking of chemotherapy He nearly did it get because of critical nationwide shortage of a drug called like Tara being."

" Literally the patients had and the hostile why would scramble for four -- days trying to get this trying to save his life."

" Oncologists say they can successfully treat about 40% of patients with acute Michael had leukemia with that -- beamed when they combine it with other throughout without. They get a cure rate is."

" Around the truck -- just -- that have been. Have in my opinion affected life and death situations in the United States over her six months."

" Including drug administration says that -- it has been so severe that there were several weeks earlier this year when there wasn't any like you're being in production. There where -- that had to me that it has to give the -- one patient over -- not -- are the three US companies that make the look at I didn't manufacturing acute that had to recall some of the medicine because of -- they can in the product. Like here -- is the generic. And experts point out it's uncommon for more profitable brand name drug to be in short supply. But according to the FDA those companies are slowly resuming production. Those -- very very serious problem alternate hopeful his doctors will have enough of the like -- drug to finish his schedule around the -- Eric Edwards NBC news."