How do you treat cancer in the US? Asking out of curiosity but I want serious answers. (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 hours ago by vivalapivo@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am not from the US. Had my close relative fight with cancer. If not for the government which sponsored it almost fully, excluding a couple of procedures like PET, it would cost our family a lot. Just for the scale: pial for one infusion of one out of three drugs would cost us $8k and my relative would've needed 16 infusions.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 10 hours ago

This was a serious answer.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

Sorry, googled it. The actual fuck

this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025

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