TheraCys Shortage?

When I started on my BCG treatment back on May 9th I had to wait a few days because they couldn't get any. I'm not sure if that was because of a shortage or because my doctor had just left a large practice to start out on his own and I was his first patient to need BCG.

Like HLamb, I also had a ton of "Stuff" come out but usally I was o.k. in a couple days, they did make me sit out a treatment to heal up. Hopefully they will have what you need for your 6th go-around, I know I didn't like waiting to hear if it was a go or no go.
Good Luck.

As far as I know there is no shortage of BCG. I just finished 6 rounds and there was no shortage. However, the shortage of Mitomyicin is very severe. I might have gotten the last of it. The company now says that they have just started producing again and recently produced around 1000 vials. During the time of the Bush administration the company was told to put a cap on the price as it was too expensive. They did, but the price of the ingredients kept rising so they stopped producing it...that is until now. The only place we could find mitomyicin (and it was the last lot) was from the CIGNA pharmacy warehouse. After this round of 8 instillations of mitomyicin I am going back to BCG for maintenance as the statistics for non reoccurence and non progression are a lot better for BCG. While on BCG I had a cornucopia of various things come out in my urine. Each instillation produced a different variety of things from the previous...but in the end every test for cancer was negative...what more could I want.

Hello All. I'm new to this web site and am just beginning to find my way around.

I will be completing my BCG treatments next week with my sixth scheduled for Thursday. I was notified that my hospital (Mass General) may not have TheraCys available due to a shortage. I've contacted Sanofi-Pasteur and was told there is no shortage.

So, has anybody out there been given this message from their hospital? I really want this over and don't want a delay in my next surgery due to an availability issue.

Thanks in advance for your reply.