Sticker shock | Science
Mar 23, 2018· Physician Peter Bach at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is appalled at the sky-high price of cancer treatments in the United States, and he is watching new immune therapies drive them higher still. Checkpoint inhibitors for various solid tumors cost about $150,000 a year, and a personalized treatment called chimeric antigen receptor–T cell therapy tops out at $475,000.