Cost of tumour killing liquid

Merlin5 · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:41

Castiel said:
Do you mean injectable liquid alkali alloy based-tumour thermal ablation therapy.

Err.. maybe, I dunno, she never gave me the full title.

Craig1981 · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:47

So would a person have the option to pay for it themselves if the NHS wont foot the bill?

Cosimo · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:48

£7500

Is this part of PDT?

hola_adios · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:50

Is it a small molecule or a protein/virus/antibody? The nature of the therapy makes a huge difference.

Merlin5 · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:51

Craig1981 said:
So would a person have the option to pay for it themselves if the NHS wont foot the bill?

No idea. Don't see why not though if they can afford it.

Castiel · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:52

Depends on the patient, but if it is the therapy I mentioned above it costs $50,000.

Aedus · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:52

£15,000

Craig1981 · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:53

Its a hefty amount to have to pay, but if it saved your life and also saved you from chemo, I think I would pay it.

Do the NHS actually provide this to patients or do they refuse on grounds of cost?

JBod · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:56

Does that include P&P?

J-FRO · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:58

Free P&P with 250 hospital visits.

Merlin5 · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:59

JBod said:
Does that include P&P?

Ginger-Menace · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:02

i wish this treatment will be/was offered to my brother

Castiel · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:02

So how much is it?

sammo62 · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:06

J-FRO said:
Free P&P with 250 hospital visits.

Genuine lol.

Old Wino · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:08

SkeeterUK · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:09

50
or 500

edit bah he said it above and i missed it, 16k

LordSplodge · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:10

Craig1981 said:
So would a person have the option to pay for it themselves if the NHS wont foot the bill?

Yes if you go *entirely* private. The NHS is not a service where you can "top up" your treatment. Nor should it ever be.

That debate is for another thread...

SlyReaper · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:24

Merlin5 said:
Ok, no cookies, sorry.

It's sixteen grand the NHS pay for, for just two spoonfuls of liquid.

She had a patient with a tumour or tumours. She said this liquid is normally used as a last resort for people that really don't want the discomfort of chemo. The liquid completely destroyed the tumour very fast. She said the prohibitive cost was mostly due to the the research that goes into it.

Yes, almost the entire cost of that is paying off the R&D costs. It's a necessary evil, because if R&D costs weren't paid off, no more research would be done and no better drugs would be developed.

Breeny · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:26

I've never heard of it, what's it called?

NHS costings are extortionate, I know it costs £600+ a day for a hospital bed.

My TPN costs £180 a day to supply to my home, it had to go before a board of Directors to get approved. There was me thinking the NHS was free :rolleyes:

dowie · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:26

LordSplodge said:
Yes if you go *entirely* private. The NHS is not a service where you can "top up" your treatment. Nor should it ever be.

That debate is for another thread...

I don't see why someone can't be diagnosed privately and then be treated on the NHS though.

And tbh.. I don't see why someone can't switch to being treated on the NHS after having initially been treated privately.