Cost of Vidaza
Hi Anne-Marie,
Since I get the Vidaza through my port, I can't speak definitively about the sub-cutaneous cost but, not including the lab work and ancillary costs, the drug appears on my bills as $412 per dose. At seven times a week, that's $2,800. Yearly, that's around $35,000. I'm sure my medicare cost is less, but I don't know how much. Nothing's cheap about MDS. Cost of Revlimid without insurance is around $250,000 yearly. 
By the way, my doc says the 5x weekly results are a community-based study, not confirmed yet in an ivory tower setting.
Best of luck!
Steve
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Steve Kessler,Age 71, Dx 3/2001, Currently AML converted from MDS, 5q-, 11q23, Negative response to Aranesp, Revlimid. Partial response to Vidaza in the past. On a study using ON1910.NA, counts too low to go to Stanford on schedule.
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