Re: Cancer Drug: $100,000 / Year

[Dave Land]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 1:52 AM, The Fool wrote:

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Doctors are excited about the prospect of Avastin, a drug already
widely used for colon cancer, as a crucial new treatment for breast  
and

lung cancer, too. But doctors are cringing at the price the maker,
Genentech, plans to charge for it: about $100,000 a year.


I can attest to the high price of cancer meds... Although it was all
covered by my insurance (I am extremely rare in being a person grateful
for insurance companies), the high-dose Temodar regimen that I took two
years ago for my brain cancer was $9,000 a month. Without insurance,
we'd have been financially ruined. Without the drug, I might have been
dead, or brain-damaged.

Friends have said that it would have been hard to notice the latter.

Dave

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Cancer Drug: $100,000 / Year

[The Fool]

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Doctors are excited about the prospect of Avastin, a drug already
widely used for colon cancer, as a crucial new treatment for breast and
lung cancer, too. But doctors are cringing at the price the maker,
Genentech, plans to charge for it: about $100,000 a year.

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