Georgetown’s Louis M. Weiner and Hackensack’s Andrew L. Pecora started to discuss forming a consortium in 2011, roughly at the time when it became clear that conferencing and data transfer technologies were making it possible for cancer centers located hundreds of miles apart to operate in a coordinated manner.
More than a year after a catastrophic shortage of platinum-based chemotherapy drugs swept through the U.S., FDA on June 28 officially removed carboplatin and cisplatin from the drug shortage list.
