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#1 Red Cross Kirk

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Posted 16 January 2018 - 08:29 PM

Here are some recent price quotes from CVS Specialty:

 

Imatinib, generic or Gleevec same price - $4,013 for 60 100mg tablets

 

Tasigna - $3,171 for 28 tablets, 150mg or 200mg same price

 

Sprycel - 30 tablets, 100mg $12,550, 50mg $6,964, 20mg $3,482


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9/25/2012  p210 transcript 118.7% IS @ Dx, begin Gleevec 400mg/day
12/2012  3.59% & bone marrow biopsy - no residual myeloproliferative features but detected 1/20 metaphases containing the Philadelphia chromosome
2013  0.914%, 0.434%, 0.412%
10/2013  0.360% & bone marrow biopsy - normal male karyotype with no evidence of a clonal cytogenetic abnormaltiy
2014  0.174%, 0.088%, 0.064%

2015  0.049%, decrease to Gleevec 200mg/day, 0.035%, 0.061%, 0.028%

2016  0.041%, 0.039%, 0.025%

2017  0.029%, 0.039%, switched to generic imatinib 200mg/day, 0.070%, 0.088%

2018  0.233%


#2 jmoorhou

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Posted 17 January 2018 - 12:57 AM

I pay $15 a month for gleevec, with Kaiser which is in Oregon. I'm on Medicare tho.
Diagnosed 3/2014 WBC 28 Non detectable within 3 monthsGleevec 400 mg 5/2014 one hour after dinner really improves nausea300 mg 12/15/2016200 mg and 300 mg Gleevec 2/25/2017 (after 3 years on Gleevec) For last four months taking 300 mg per day. Last CMC showed liver enzymes elevated, went to a good Naturopath and he recommended 4 Tumeric, 10,000 mg Vitamen D, and 3 milk thistle (silymarin) daily. Also use One<p>Day Detox Dandeloin tea, and Nettle Tea and a slice of ginger every day...in two months liver tests were below normal.Janis

#3 r06ue1

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Posted 17 January 2018 - 08:37 AM

"The cost to manufacture a one-year supply of 400-mg imatinib tablets is $159,"

"...pills made by one Indian generic company cost $400 a year..."

  - Dr. Hagop Kantarjian

 

Still waiting for a big price drop, think we will see it soon?  I guess we will need to wait three or four decades, sort of like how trickle down works.  ;)


08/2015 Initial PCR: 66.392%

12/2015 PCR: 1.573%

03/2016 PCR: 0.153%

06/2016 PCR: 0.070%

09/2016 PCR: 0.052%

12/2016 PCR: 0.036%

03/2017 PCR: 0.029%

06/2017 PCR: 0.028%

09/2017 PCR: 0.025%

12/2017 PCR: 0.018%

 

 

Taking Imatinib 400 mg





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