what is the most expensive medication?
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it can be a Bottle or a injection
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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)
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Drugs that are used to cure Cancer
i heard that just the other day, and dadgonit I furgit.
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.
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http://www.zyvox.com/hcpConfirm.asp?hcp=check
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!
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.
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http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfosearch.jsp
colon cancer stage 4 chemo-drugs most expensive
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myself
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.
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self
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
Source(s):
http://www.multiplemyeloma.org/
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