2025 A pharmacist working in cancer care in Malawi said chemotherapy drugs arriving to his clinic would look off – sometimes changing color. Patients desperately seeking chemotherapy medicines would be turned away. “We had patients scheduled for clinic,” he said, “and then we had to break the news to them that we don’t have medicines.”…

2025 Laxmi Kumari’s 2-year-old son is being treated for cancer in Kathmandu, Nepal. The family has contributed multiple months’ salaries worth of rupees to access treatment in a private facility in Kathmandu. Even with this substantial financial investment and the extensive travel involved to get to Kathmandu, Laxmi has no assurance that treatment will use…

2002 A hard-working businesswoman, Maxine didn’t let a cancer diagnosis stop her from living an active lifestyle. With the help of her anemia medicine Procrit, she maintained some of her old energy after starting chemotherapy. One day, the medicine stopped working and the Procrit she was using was found to be falsified. Anemia allowed her…

2014 Described as a vivacious 76-year-old Arizona grandmother with lung cancer, Betty was never the same again after doctors unknowingly injected her with fake Avastin in 2011. Her health deteriorated after the incident, and she died three months later. The doctors had purchased the drug from an illegal Canadian online pharmacy, which sourced their drugs…