Name of disease or illness, and name of drug and most important the price
it can be a Bottle or a injection
2006-06-16 13:46:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
I work in cancer research, so we work with a lot of drugs. We're using an experimental drug called Velcade - it's about $800 per vial (that's a single-use vial). It's a proteasome inhibitor. Of course, $800 is our cost...who know's how much they bill insurance for it...
I also have a friend with two premature babies...they take vaccines so that they don't get RSV - that shot is $1,200.
I used to work in cardiology - there is a special stent (a small coil that is placed inside a blood vessel) that they use to open blocked arteries when someone gets angioplasty, this one is made by Johnson & Johnson and it's called a Cypher stent, because it's coated with a drug called Sirolimus - they bill patients $12,000 for that... (it's not really a drug, per say)
2006-06-16 19:45:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
Here are 3 drugs used to treat Multiple Myeloma Cancer (one drug mentioned earlier post)
Thalomid® (thalidomide) - cost $1200 a month (sometimes more)
Velcade® (bortezomib) - mentioned earlier - about $2000
Pamidronate - low cost but requires about 3 hours in the hospital to have it administered and you need an pretty good blood test before hand - total cost is about $2500 a month. You can be on it for years.
Jewells
28 months and still here
2006-06-19 08:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by jewells_40 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most expensive medication I've come in contact with was lovenox. It is an anti coagulant, and with insurance, it was $100.00 an injection. That price was for 100 mg, and I took that twice a day for a few weeks. That was pretty expensive, for me!
2006-06-16 20:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by Aunt Sam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most expensive drug I have come across is Zyvox in IV form. It runs about $500 US per dose. It is used for infections, especially MRSA.
2006-06-16 20:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by camping_girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rituximab - I think it was in the order of about $5,000 per injection five years ago. This is used for lymphoma. Had five of these, but there is a good success rate w/it.
2006-06-17 23:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by Taffy Saltwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is the best I can give you (as far as a reference goes), but I would think that Cancer and AIDS cocktails are the most expensive. Diabetes has a lot of cost with it too, insulin, syringes, test strips...
2006-06-16 20:56:50 · answer #6 · answered by Nursen' 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drugs that are used to cure Cancer
2006-06-16 20:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by Caicita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
colon cancer stage 4 chemo-drugs most expensive
2006-06-16 22:08:33 · answer #8 · answered by DAVID W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard that just the other day, and dadgonit I furgit.
2006-06-16 20:50:04 · answer #9 · answered by Iron Rider 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋