02-14-2019, 11:12 PM
FYI, any drug suffix with -mab indicates it’s a biologic drug. This suffix means monoclonal antibody and are extremely expensive unless you are enrolled in some clinical trial. Some have devistating side effects, others have tremendously helped patients.
It will be many years before these mAB drugs become reasonably priced. There’s a current push in Pharma to only charge cancer patients if the treatment works...I can’t recall the exact term they’ve coined this idea...but for those that need it for non-oncology needs...out of luck for the time being.
My advice: search and search for clinical trials using these biologics for ‘off-label’ purposes and get enrolled. Cost will be zero.
It will be many years before these mAB drugs become reasonably priced. There’s a current push in Pharma to only charge cancer patients if the treatment works...I can’t recall the exact term they’ve coined this idea...but for those that need it for non-oncology needs...out of luck for the time being.
My advice: search and search for clinical trials using these biologics for ‘off-label’ purposes and get enrolled. Cost will be zero.