If ordinary people get cancer, they can't afford it at all, and they can't afford medicine. So many people give up treatment after they get cancer and go straight home to die. So why is cancer so expensive?
In fact, this statement is not wrong. Cancer drugs are so expensive because the research and development cost of cancer drugs is particularly high. We all realize that cancer itself is a very difficult disease to overcome, and people know little about this field.
However, there are many kinds of cancers, such as malignant and benign colorectal cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and many other parts of the body. However, there are not so many kinds of drugs developed, and not every anticancer drug is suitable for this patient.
Like our antibiotics, antibiotics are particularly easy to develop. Almost everyone with inflammation can use antibiotics, and a few dollars a bottle is particularly cheap.
Drugs for cancer can't be made by ordinary pharmaceutical companies. In addition to high technical requirements, there are also high requirements for researchers. Ordinary researchers are certainly incapable of making cancer drugs.
And the ingredients for making cancer drugs must be particularly expensive and rare. Not ordinary medicinal materials can be bought in the market.
I think if science becomes more and more developed in the future, there will be more and more explorations in the field of cancer. More and more anticancer drugs may be developed. At that time, anticancer drugs will become cheaper and cheaper, so that ordinary people can use them.