Millions of anti-cancer drugs hit the price of cabbage, this is what Peking University professor Li Ling told when he attended the event, which made many people full of hope for this, after all, the advent of anti-cancer miracle drugs once became a lifesaver for many cancer patients.
However, the price of up to one million has discouraged many families, and this time Li Ling's promise to reduce the price of cancer to the price of cabbage is undoubtedly a very exciting thing.
So why are cancer drugs so expensive? Is it possible to hit the price of cabbage with anti-cancer drugs?
Anti-cancer miracle drug CAR-T
The anti-cancer miracle drug in Li Ling's mouth is actually CAR-T, which is not a drug that inhibits the reproduction of cancer cells in the traditional sense, but a drug that completely eliminates cancer cells, and this drug is the most leading drug in the world.
The principle of this drug is to achieve the effect of treating cancer by modifying the patient's own T cells to strengthen their ability to attack tumor cells.
There have been rumors that after the injection of this drug, the cancer cells in the patient's body will be completely cleared within two months, but in fact, this rumor is not accurate, but it is certain that this anti-cancer drug can indeed play a very important role in cancer patients.
According to the doctor's description, China's first anti-cancer drug Axileucel injection has been played in 21 years, and the first patient in China to conduct this drug experiment was diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which is a type of blood cancer in our traditional sense.
At the beginning, the hospital adopted conventional treatment methods to alleviate the patient's condition, but in the first half of 21, the patient's condition relapsed, and then the hospital started targeted therapy but the effect was not great.
As mentioned earlier, this method of treatment is to strengthen T cells and turn them into CAR-T, which have their own navigation heads that recognize cancer cells and can kill tumor cells.
As long as there are no signs of tumor after three months of treatment and examination in the hospital, then the probability of curing the disease is very large.
Disadvantages of CAR-T
We all know that although all cancers are collectively called cancers, each cancer is different, which also leads to some cancers that are easy to cure and some cancers that are not curable at all.
Although CAR-T can cure some cancers, it is not suitable for all cancer patients, and the patients who can use CAR-T in China at this stage are basically adult patients with refractory B-cell lymphoma, because this disease is not refractory if detected in time, and most of the patients can be cured through chemotherapy and targeted drugs.
However, there are also some patients who cannot be cured by early treatment, or who have relapsed, the effect of CAR-T is very great, of course, for tumors that are large, or if they grow in the brain, although CAR-T can also be cured, but the risk is very large, but even so, there are many people who are looking forward to this method can be used on their own body, after all, there is only one statement.
As for whether the CAR-T treatment method can be used in other cancers, in fact, many experts have given the answer, that is, it is very possible, after all, although the cancer cells are different, they are the same, as long as the cancer cells can be completely destroyed, the problem of cancer can be solved, but there is one problem that still affects many people, that is, the cost of CAR-T.
A million miracle medicines
The price of CAR-T is very expensive, everyone knows very well, a needle is 1.2 million, which is definitely a huge burden for a family, but in fact, although 1.2 million is more, compared with foreign countries, the price of CAR-T in China has been much less.
At present, the price of CAR-T on the overseas market is basically two or three million, which is basically more than twice that of China, but even so, this drug is already sky-high for ordinary families.
However, the price of this drug is so high that the pharmaceutical company cannot be completely blamed, the main reason is that there are many cancer patients today, and cancer is a terminal disease in the hearts of many people, as long as they are infected, they will definitely die, but many people also understand that the reason why cancer is difficult to treat is because it is very difficult to destroy cancer cells, and their division speed is far faster than ordinary cells.
In many cases, it is already at an advanced stage just after discovering any abnormality, which leads to a high mortality rate of cancer, which is why the research and development cost of CAR-T technology is high, which leads to the high cost of CAR-T drugs.
In addition, the storage of CAR-T drugs is also very complicated, generally need to be stored at minus 130 degrees, and CAR-T must be tailored to each person's condition, these are the places where money is needed, which is why the price of this drug is so expensive.
CAR-T is difficult to get into health insurance
Of course, many people think, why not CAR-T into the medical insurance, this problem is actually very simple, or the price of the problem, in fact, China's medical insurance compared with the so-called free medical care abroad, in fact, it is more beneficial to the people, after all, many people can not wait for free medical care, although the medical insurance can not fully reimburse some drugs, but it greatly reduces the price, making people see the disease.
Many targeted drugs, including the treatment of cancer, are included in the medical insurance, so most people can afford to get sick now, but the cost of CAR-T is too high, and it is more difficult to enter the medical insurance, but it is not that it is impossible, the premise is naturally that the price of CAR-T is reduced, which requires CAR-T to reduce costs, which is why Li Ling said that CAR-T can be reduced to the price of cabbage.
Can CAR-T be reduced to the price of cabbage?
Li Ling said at the meeting that more than 1 million anti-cancer injections can fully reach the "cabbage price", because China's epidemic prevention and control is a good example, the starting price of nucleic acid testing in United States is 3,000 US dollars, but China only has a few yuan, and the same is true for vaccines.
The same is true for anti-cancer drugs, as long as the market is large, the price can be completely reduced, and with the help of the government, Li Ling believes that CAR-T will definitely decline in the future, and even become the price of cabbage.
However, it is not easy to achieve this, especially the technical issues, but I believe that one day, anti-cancer drugs will become affordable drugs for every household.
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