Cost of Dacogen
Drug is certainly not cheap!! My cycle is 5 days (1 hr. each day) on and then 3 weeks off!
The cost of drug and adminstering the drug is approximately $2500 per day! Also, involved in this cost is blood work (CBC) and 1 visit with the doctor. I'm not sure the exact cost of the drug alone! Thank goodness for my insurance covers all except a co-pay to the doctor. But, this drug has kept me well for 22 months transfusion independent and living normal life and I'd pay all the money I have for it if I had to!
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66 yr female;diag 6/09; MDS, unspecified, normal cytogenetics: blasts 10%; successful Dacogen;every 4th wk.; as of Aug.'12 changing to every 5th wk., stable at Hgb 12-14/platelets 200-300/wbc 2.-3.
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