Presumably, everyone should have heard of a malignant disease called "leukemia" in life, in fact, it is also a malignant tumor, but it is different from other organ malignant tumors, which is a cancerous mutation that appears in the hematopoietic system.
When a certain series of hematopoietic cells lose the ability to mature and differentiate, they will proliferate malignant clones in the bone marrow and other hematopoietic tissues, and they will also invade the tissues and organs of the whole body, so that the patient's hematopoietic function is inhibited, so it is also called "blood cancer" in the clinic!
Blood cancers do not only find adults, but also rank first in the incidence of pediatric malignancies. In China, about 150 million children develop acute leukemia each year, 75% of whom develop acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Many of these cancer families are disposed of for treatment, and the cost is like a bottomless pit.
But even if it costs tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, it may not be able to buy a living life. Clinically on the mainland, there are many leukemia families, and they eventually face the end of people and money.
So the question is, why is the "blood demon" of leukemia high in terms of treatment costs?
1. Chemotherapy costs
Chemotherapy is a common treatment for a variety of leukemias, such as the acute lymphoblastic leukemia mentioned above, and after complete remission, maintenance therapy is also required, with a total treatment time of up to 2.5 to 3.5 years.
Even children with acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia require high-intensity exercise chemotherapy, and the total treatment time reaches about 6-8 months. Most patients spend about 50,000 yuan during the first chemotherapy. In the first year, the total cost of treatment reached nearly 200,000 yuan, and it is conceivable that if the condition is serious and recurs, the cost will be even more;
2. Drugs
In the process of treating leukemia, a variety of drugs need to be used, and most of them are imported drugs. You know, from the research of drugs to the listing of drugs, enterprises have invested extremely high research and development costs and obtained drug patents, so the price of drugs is naturally not low.
Although the patents of some special effects have expired, the production quality of deadly pharmaceutical companies is still far ahead, so the pricing is relatively high. The more imported drugs and specific drugs, the higher the cost of treatment;
3. Bone marrow transplantation
In the face of bone marrow transplantation, the cost of chemotherapy and drugs, as well as the cost of examination, is actually insignificant. If a leukemia patient needs a bone marrow transplant and the patient finds the right bone marrow match, this is undoubtedly the luckiest.
However, bone marrow transplant patients must first achieve complete remission, which costs around 100,000-300,000 yuan. The cost of bone marrow transplantation from inbound to outbound is about 300,000-400,000.
After transplantation, it faces many serious problems such as graft-versus-host disease and infection, and the annual medical cost is more than 200,000 yuan. Moreover, what is more worrying is that even after the transplant is successful, it does not mean that there will be no recurrence in the future.
All in all, the treatment of leukemia is indeed a huge cost, depending on the patient's degree of risk and pathological type, the cost ranges from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands, or even millions.
But it is still that sentence, the gold is scattered and returned, as long as people are alive, everything has hope, but if life has disappeared, then there is really nothing. Therefore, in the face of money and life, which is the most important, I think everyone already has the answer in their hearts.