This commonly prescribed cancer drug was supposed to help save his life, instead it killed him

Three men stand in a living room behind an easel holding a large photo portrait of another man. The man on the left is wearing a dark sweater over a collared shirt and has short black hair. The man to the viewer's right has black and grey short wavy hair and is wearing a dark sweater. The man on the right has wavy thick black hair and wears a pale blue button-up shirt. All three of them have serious facial expressions. The man in the photo has greying wavy hair, wears a grey blazer over a pale blue button-up shirt and is smiling.

After being diagnosed with colon cancer earlier this year, Dr. Anil Kapoor of Ontario was prescribed the common chemotherapy medication Fluorouracil. Three weeks later, he died from a toxic reaction to it. His brothers are on a mission to uncover who is most at risk and what the Canadian health-care system should do about it.



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