What is the price of treating small cell lung cancer

What is the price of treating small cell lung cancer? Small cell lung cancer is very harmful. If it is not treated in time, it will lead to poor quality of life for patients and may even endanger the patient's life. Today I will introduce to you the price of treating small cell lung cancer:

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for about 20% of lung cancer. It is highly malignant, has a short doubling time, early and extensive metastasis, is sensitive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and has a high initial remission rate. However, it is very prone to secondary drug resistance and relapse. Treatment is mainly systemic chemotherapy.

The treatment of small cell lung cancer is mainly chemotherapy, which can be combined or sequentially with radiotherapy. For early patients with less than 5 years of disease limited to the lung parenchyma, surgical treatment is considered. Limited-stage SCLC is mainly treated with synchronous chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy and radiotherapy sequentially. Synchronous chemoradiotherapy is better than sequential treatment. Synchronous chemoradiotherapy should be performed as early as possible, and preventive whole-brain radiotherapy should be given. Preventive whole-brain radiotherapy has significant benefits for survival. Extensive-stage SCLC is mainly treated with chemotherapy, and local or metastatic lesions can be treated at an appropriate time.

Surgical treatment: Patients with TNM stage T1-2N0M0 can undergo surgical resection if confirmed by mediastinoscopy or surgical staging. Even patients who achieve complete resection still need chemotherapy after surgery.

The price is generally most directly related to the patient's condition, because the severity of the disease determines the formulation of the treatment plan and the choice of treatment methods, and also affects the cost of treatment. If you go for treatment in time in the early stage, the treatment is relatively simple and the cost is naturally not expensive. But if you delay treatment, the difficulty of treatment will increase, and the methods and treatment drugs used will be different, so the cost will of course be more expensive. In addition, the severity of the disease determines whether to be hospitalized or not. If hospitalization is required, hospitalization fees, treatment fees, nursing fees, etc. will be incurred separately, and the costs will be different. The technical level of the doctor is different, and the charges are also different. Therefore, the cost of treatment should be considered based on the severity of the patient's condition, the choice of hospital, the choice of treatment methods, and other comprehensive factors, and cannot be generalized.