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Metastatic breast cancer: Anyone else?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 12 3:44pm | Replies (213)

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@auntieoakley

If you have this conversation with your doctor, there might be resources to help you with this. Cancer centers frequently have someone on staff that help you get signed up for a program or a grant. Also our doctor is very good at looking at alternative deliveries of medicine. In clinic shots, opposed to orals, if it means getting it paid for. It is truly crazy that an infusion or in clinic injection has a copay of 20.00 or 40.00, but if you take a pill at home it is frequently not covered or has a ridiculous co pay in the thousands. My husbands two chemo pills together add up to $35,000 per month. If they weren’t covered he would have been gone years ago. Is your oncologist part of a larger cancer center? Are you close enough to be comfortable getting regular injections or infusions?

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Yes there is a cancer center at my local hospital. I will also check with them if need be once I see my MO on the 7th of Nov.