How much does it cost to treat melanoma

How much does it cost to treat melanoma? This is a question that patients and their families have to face and often consider. The disease not only harms the patient's body, but also tests the patient's money. After melanoma surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and traditional Chinese medicine treatment are required to achieve no recurrence and no metastasis. How much does it cost for these treatments? The financial pressure on ordinary people is also huge. The cost of melanoma treatment also depends on the treatment method.

Surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and biological therapy are the most common treatments for malignant melanoma. However, no matter which treatment method is adopted, the price of treatment is the most concerned issue for patients and their families. As cancer patients become poor or return to poverty due to illness, people always have reservations about cancer treatment. Many people believe that no matter how cancer is treated, it will only end up with nothing. In fact, if the treatment method is appropriate, it can not only prolong the patient's life, but also save treatment costs.

Surgery is the main treatment for melanoma, but it is expensive and has a high likelihood of recurrence and metastasis after surgery.

Generally, patients with malignant melanoma usually receive surgical treatment in the early stage, but the cost of surgery is relatively high. Depending on the patient's condition, the cost of malignant melanoma surgery is also different, generally ranging from tens of thousands of yuan. In addition, the recurrence and metastasis rate of surgery is relatively high. According to statistics, the recurrence rate is 60% and the mortality rate is about 80% one year after surgery. In order to avoid this, many patients use radiotherapy and chemotherapy to consolidate the therapeutic effect.

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy have serious side effects, long treatment courses and high costs:

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are a double-edged sword. While killing malignant melanoma cells, they will also constantly invade the body's normal cell tissues and immune cells. Since malignant melanoma cancer cells multiply quickly, they can form tens of thousands of tiny cancer cells in a short period of time, but human immune cells do not have this ability. When radiotherapy and chemotherapy kill a large number of them, the immune cells are at a disadvantage, and the growing cancer cells will counterattack, and the originally improved condition will relapse again. As a result, patients with malignant melanoma will enter a cycle of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which greatly increases the cost of treatment.

It is understood that the cost of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for malignant melanoma is relatively high and the course of treatment is long. Generally, one or two courses of treatment are unlikely to have any effect on the condition, and patients need to undergo several or even dozens of courses of treatment. Depending on the treatment plan, the cost of one course of treatment ranges from 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, which is even more unaffordable for malignant melanoma patients from ordinary families.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is a traditional treatment method, and the cost is relatively the most economical. A Chinese medicine can be taken for a week after being combined, and the cost is not very high. However, the characteristic of Chinese medicine is that it takes a long time to take effect, and the effect cannot be seen in a relatively short time. The modernization of Chinese medicine is also very necessary. Chinese medicine such as ginsenoside Rh2 has a significant anti-cancer effect, but its content is very rare. To exert the effect, a certain dose is definitely required. Only by increasing the content can the effect be exerted faster. A certain group improved the extraction technology of ginsenoside Rh2 and produced a capsule with a content of 16.2%, which is currently the highest content on the market.

Biological therapy is also a new treatment method in recent years. Biological therapy can repair the damage caused by the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and enhance the patient's immune ability. It can relieve the patient's treatment pain, prolong the patient's survival time, and improve the patient's quality of life. At present, there are not many applications of this technology, and the price is relatively expensive. The cost of a biological immunotherapy can be as high as hundreds of thousands. The high cost of treatment has also slowed down the popularization of biological therapy.

The cost of melanoma treatment also depends on the treatment method chosen by the patient and the drugs used for treatment, but overall the cost is relatively expensive, costing more than tens of thousands of dollars, so patients and their families must be mentally prepared for this.

If patients actively cooperate, reduce relapses, adjust their mentality, and shorten the treatment process, they will reduce financial pressure. Financial support from family members will also increase patients' confidence in overcoming the disease.