Cancer and Healthy

Cancer treatment is a costly and you need advise before going for the treatment. The cost of chemotherapy depends on the types of drugs and duration of treatment; it also depends on how often the treatment is given and where you are taking it, in clinic, at hospital or at home.

Most of the health insurance policies cover major expenses in chemotherapy. You can take help of such organizations, which provide cost of both transportation and chemotherapy treatment. You come to know about such helping organizations from your doctor or nurse.

There are plenty of drugs available at low cost but some of the anti-cancer drugs are very costly. It may require using such costly drugs in combination with the lower costly medicines, in order to get the best and fast result. Thus the overall cost of the treatment automatically gets increased.

Most of the cancer patients are unable to afford such a huge cost while getting the right treatment and die because of lack of money while taking the cancer treatment. In such conditions insurance companies help the needy cancer patients, but these companies have many rules and regulations.

The cost of chemotherapy mainly estimated on the basis of the tests, procedures and the services required for the treatment. Even though it is true that chemotherapy treatment is very expensive, but it is the only effective treatment for cancer. Drugs like antibiotics, cholesterol or blood pressure tablets and chemotherapy drugs can also be made available on prescription but again the cost of prescription depends on your pension or Health care card.

In this treatment the total cost of the chemotherapy is covered under Medicare System and the Medical Oncologists are responsible for charging the Medicare schedule fees. Cancer patient needs to sign the Medicare form before staring the chemotherapy through Medicare System. It is also good and beneficial for the patients as well, as they can track his/her treatment records in future and it is useful as a reference in the other cancer therapy centers.