Are anticancer drugs expensive? Expensive! Some "traditional Chinese medicines with anticancer effects" are not expensive, but these medicines are not effective. Most of the truly reliable anticancer drugs still rely on imports. For example, the more expensive Teresar gets 5. 1 10,000 a month, and the cheaper Jitairui gets almost 1 10,000 a month (domestic products are not very cheap, and Etan of Hengrui gets 1 10,000 a month). Even if charity aid is included, the annual procurement cost of most anticancer drugs is 200,000-300,000.
There are many reasons why these anticancer drugs are expensive. The first is the cost of research and development. Cancer is a difficult disease to overcome, and the research and development of anticancer drugs is very difficult, which requires thousands of researchers to work hard for more than ten years and invest at least one billion dollars. But a drug is often only effective for some patients, especially the current targeted drugs. Unlike a fever or a cold, there are generally hundreds of thousands of patients who are suitable for a certain variety. To recover the high cost from these limited patients, the price will naturally be high.
Also, pharmaceutical companies are not charitable organizations. If they want to make a profit, they should not only recover the cost, but also recover the cost as soon as possible and earn it back exponentially. Many medicines are exclusive. If patients don't use this medicine, they will die soon. Do you have any other options?
Another reason is the problem of circulation, besides the drug importers/agents/pharmacies/hospitals we can see, there are also. These are all part of the cost. What I am doing in Yaokangfu is to reduce the payment pressure of patients and gather more patients to fight for more rights and interests from pharmaceutical companies.
However, to solve this problem completely, we should not learn from India, but strengthen our own research and development capabilities. There are more competitors in the market, and the price will be more reasonable. As an individual, it is better to develop healthy living habits.