Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Cost of lung cancer treatment

Cost of lung cancer treatment?
I'm doing a research paper on lung cancer and I need the average cost of lung cancer treatment and the average cost of treatment from Roswell Parks Cancer Institute. Does anyone know what they are?
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This is difficult information to obtain. I doubt you will get a general answer. Which type of lung cancer - small cell or non-small cell ? Surgery is used for "non-small cell types" but not for small cells types. Of course surgery adds greatly to the overall expense - tens of thousands of dollars. The stage of the lung cancer matters too. Is radiation therapy involved? That is tens of thousands of dollars. If chemotherapy is involved - the expense varies greatly depending on which of the many chemotherapy agents /regimens are used. Some of the new ones are very expensive. More tens of thousand of dollars. Costs have been escalating astronomically in the past ten years since I retired from cancer medicine. Pharmaceutical company charges have become out of this world for the newer chemotherapy agents. Greed seems to be rampant at the corporate level. - - - If I had to guess - and this is based on what I have learned from "Dave" on this site - the current cost would be somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 - or could be higher. The sad part is, we only cure one person in seven (~15%) who has a primary lung carcinoma in the USA despite all of this expense. Much better to prevent them. If people would not smoke cigarettes, about 90% of lung carcinomas could be avoided in the first place. Lung cancers from cigarette smoking cause over 31% of all cancer deaths in the U.S. - and they could have been prevented.
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You can easily check your minimal health care rates in internet, for example here - healthquotes.awardspace.info



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