How much does chemotherapy for testicular cancer cost

How much does chemotherapy cost for testicular cancer? Many cancer patients need chemotherapy. Now testicular cancer also requires chemotherapy, but many people do not understand the specific cost. They do not know whether it is a waste of money for chemotherapy. So, let us learn about the cost of chemotherapy for testicular cancer.

Let’s first understand the symptoms of testicular cancer:

Most men with testicular cancer present with a swollen testicle. Associated symptoms include heaviness or pain. Severe pain is rare. Because testicular cancer often causes a decrease in sperm count, men occasionally present with infertility. About 25% of men present with symptoms caused by metastatic disease. Clinical manifestations of metastatic disease include back pain, shortness of breath, chest pain, or coughing up blood.

Cost of chemotherapy:

The cost of chemotherapy is mainly determined by the drugs used by the patient, the course of treatment and the local charging standards. Different chemotherapy plans, the prices of chemotherapy drugs, whether imported or domestically produced, all result in different chemotherapy costs.

Chemotherapy is carried out in cycles, such as 21-day cycles, 28-day cycles, 14-day cycles, and so on. The cost varies with the time. In each cycle, different diseases have different medicines. Even for the same disease, the dosage is different for different diseases. Therefore, there is no strict standard for the price of chemotherapy. Generally, domestic chemotherapy drugs are cheaper, about 3,000 yuan per chemotherapy (of course, different plans have different prices), while imported drugs are more expensive, and more than 10,000 yuan per chemotherapy.

Different cancer sites determine different chemotherapy regimens and different chemotherapy drugs, which means that the cost of chemotherapy is different. But in general, chemotherapy drugs are not cheap, probably more than 10,000 yuan.