How much does chemotherapy for glioma cost? What factors are related to the consumption of chemotherapy for glioma?

I believe everyone is familiar with glioma. As a common malignant tumor disease in clinical practice, its occurrence has brought great troubles to our lives, and in severe cases it even directly threatens our lives and health. There are many methods for treating glioma, but the cost of treatment is still a very serious problem for some patients with poor family conditions.

The cost of brain glioma cannot be generalized. It is affected by many factors, such as the treatment methods and hospitals, the severity of the patient's condition, etc., and there are different cost concepts.

Different treatment options

1. Chemotherapy: At present, great progress has been made in the chemotherapy of gliomas. However, due to the special structure of the blood-brain barrier in the brain, the chemotherapy of gliomas is still subject to many restrictions. Any chemotherapy drug can only pass through the lipid-soluble cells of the blood vessels and then enter the tumor cells to produce effects. This mode affects the speed of drug action. Chemical drugs have a certain effect in the treatment of gliomas, but have adverse effects such as delayed and cumulative bone marrow suppression and pulmonary toxicity, and are prone to drug resistance.

2. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy for glioma is a common adjuvant treatment for glioma, which usually starts 1 to 2 weeks after surgery. Radiotherapy for glioma mainly uses the fact that tumor cells are sensitive to radiation and are easily damaged by radiation to kill tumor cells. Generally, the treatment takes about four to eight weeks, and the size and dose of the irradiation range will be determined based on the different tumor pathological diagnosis, degree of differentiation and imaging medical examination results. Radiotherapy is a better method for many malignant tumors and deep benign tumors that cannot be safely removed. At present, radiotherapy for glioma has developed into a form-following or positioning method, but some malignant gliomas still require large-scale brain radiotherapy or whole-skull and spine radiotherapy.

3. Surgical treatment: For benign gliomas, the possibility of complete surgical resection is relatively high, and the survival rate of glioma patients is also higher, such as cerebral or cerebellar astrocytoma, sella craniopharyngioma, ventricular choroid plexus tumor, etc., which do not require radiation or chemotherapy to treat gliomas, and the possibility of recurrence is small, but regular CT or MRI reexamination is required. Residual tumors that cannot be completely removed by surgery.

Individual situations vary

For some people, the causes of illness are not too complicated, the onset time is relatively short, and they actively cooperate with the treatment, the course of treatment is short, and the recovery is faster, so the cost of treatment is much less. For some patients, the onset time is long, the causes are relatively complicated, and they do not cooperate with the treatment. Some even lose confidence in the treatment, which will affect the treatment results. The treatment time is long and the effect is not very good, which increases the cost of treatment.

Differences in treatment hospitals

The prices offered by small roadside clinics may be very low, which are constantly tempting you, but it may not be a good thing for patients. The human body is relatively weak, and many examination instruments are only available in large hospitals. Small clinics simply make a diagnosis based on visual and digital examinations, which is obviously irresponsible to the patients, and the various fees added up are not small. When seeing a doctor, what matters is the effect of the treatment, and it is more secure to go to a regular hospital to treat the disease.

Medical insurance reimbursement costs vary

It is common sense that the fees for hospitals that cannot be covered by medical insurance are slightly higher, while those that can be covered by medical insurance are much lighter. Generally, tertiary hospitals are designated medical insurance hospitals. The fees are set and strictly supervised by the Municipal Price Bureau, Municipal Health Bureau and other institutions. The hospital lobby has a price announcement. Everything from registration, examination to treatment will be announced on the patient's payment slip, making the price details transparent so that every patient can see a doctor clearly and spend clearly.

If you are unfortunately diagnosed with a brain glioma, you must go to the hospital for treatment immediately and adhere to the core concept of "people-oriented, scientific anti-cancer". This will greatly reduce the patient's pain in treatment and greatly improve their living treatment, thereby promoting the patient's recovery and making it possible to survive with the tumor.