Cost of radioimmunotherapy
A blog reader has asked an important question. What is the cost of radiloimmunotherapy (RIT)?
Firstly, RIT is not administered as the sole medicinal treatment for a lymphoma patient---it is given in conjunction with other medication, often chemotherapy.
Having said that, I think that a reasonable estimate is that therapy that includes RIT would cost approximately $25,000-$30,000. This cost is in-line with the cost of conventional lymphoma therapy that does not include radioimmunotherapy.
As one who had been told of incurable non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Stage IV and now has no cellular or molecular evidence of malignancy, the cost of RIT was worth every penny.
Please forgive the repetition, but the cost of RIT was worth every penny.
Mort