Class action launched against Hamilton chemo drug maker

Updated It’s a cancer care scare involving more than 1,000 patients in this province.

Chemotherapy drugs administered at four Ontario hospitals, produced by Marchese Hospital Solutions of Hamilton may have contained too much saline – a substance used to water down the powerful and often toxic medication to make it safe for patients.

The allegation in this case is that too much saline was used, watering down the prescribed potency of the drugs by as much as 20 percent. Scot Urquhart updates the investigation: