What is the approximate cost of melanoma

With the rapid development of social economy, people are gradually moving towards a well-off life. Cancer, a terrible disease, has disrupted the rhythm of life of countless patients' families, not only causing serious harm to the patients' bodies, but also placing a heavy burden on the families' finances. Melanoma, as a type of cancer, has the characteristics of high malignancy, rapid progression of the disease, poor prognosis, and high mortality. While actively undergoing treatment, many patients will worry about medical expenses. How much does it cost to treat melanoma? The following editor will analyze for you how much it costs to treat melanoma.

Surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine 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 due to illness and 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 a loss of both money and life, and it is better not to treat it. In fact, this is not the case. Professor Yuan Xifu of Zhengzhou Xifu Traditional Chinese Medicine Oncology Hospital pointed out that it is understandable that patients and their families have such thoughts, but this idea is wrong. If patients are treated properly, it can not only improve the quality of life of patients, prolong their lives, but also save treatment costs.

Clinically, surgery is one of the common ways to treat melanoma, 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, this does not include the cost of various preoperative examinations and preoperative hospitalization fees. Direct surgical resection of the cancerous lesion can quickly control the deterioration of the patient's condition, but surgical treatment has the disadvantages of easy recurrence and complications. According to statistics, the recurrence rate of melanoma patients one year after surgery. In order to reduce the recurrence rate of patients after surgery and improve the survival rate of patients five years after surgery, many patients use radiotherapy and chemotherapy for consolidation treatment after surgery.

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. Because 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 melanoma is relatively high and the course of treatment is long. The cost of a course of treatment ranges from 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, which is even more unaffordable for malignant melanoma patients from ordinary families.