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

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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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[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, thanks for the explanation. I think I have a better understanding of the US healthcare system.

As for the people, they are just parroting the media, nothing new here.

this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025

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