<story><title>Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-cancer-industry-hype-vs-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnpowell</author><text>I get a 20 minute drip of Pembrolizumab every three weeks. I had it done two days ago. 28K per infusion.&lt;p&gt;The cancer has spread since I have been taking it. But I don&amp;#x27;t know if the cancer is spreading slower with taking it or not.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m 1.5 million deep in medical bills from the last year. I no longer open my mail or answer my phone. I am just waiting for the day I go in for treatment and they turn me away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiphias2</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so sorry for you, US healthcare research is amazing and US healthcare availability is really bad at the same time.&lt;p&gt;My girlfriend in Hungary got all her cancer treatment for free, even if it&amp;#x27;s a quite poor country compared to the US.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-cancer-industry-hype-vs-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnpowell</author><text>I get a 20 minute drip of Pembrolizumab every three weeks. I had it done two days ago. 28K per infusion.&lt;p&gt;The cancer has spread since I have been taking it. But I don&amp;#x27;t know if the cancer is spreading slower with taking it or not.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m 1.5 million deep in medical bills from the last year. I no longer open my mail or answer my phone. I am just waiting for the day I go in for treatment and they turn me away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevespang</author><text>Hope that you put your home and all your assets in a trust for your kids before you got treatments. You can declare bankruptcy in Texas or Florida and still keep your house, but I guess that only works if you are still alive . . . after you die the medical community just files suit to steal all your assets.</text></comment>