Oncotype
I was diagnosed with stage 2 in December and decided to have to Oncotype test to determine whether chemo would be of benefit. I'm 44, have 2 young girls and I just didn't want chemo unless there was g...
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I asked if it was worth doing Oncotype in my case and the answer was no, waste of my money given my age/health before diagnosis, give it everything they’ve got to give
me (hopefully) lots and lots of time to live my life. In other words, no one was willing to not proceed with chemo.
I can see it’s absolute relevance though and agree it would save ALOT of money. The average general ward bed is around $1200 in Qld, intensive care bed close to $3000 - that’s per day. If we looked at the cost effectiveness of saving admissions to wards and at time sadly ICU for neutropenia associated illnesses during chemo alone the saving would be staggering if some patients had access to Oncotype and had the option of saying no benefit to them for chemo.
Just yesterday at chemo I encountered say 10-15 members of staff briefly, used a chair and a bed, the actual drug, my chemo ran late because I needed an electrolyte infusion so the nurse were the into overtime before I left the unit. If I didn’t need chemo I wouldn’t have had my port inserted, that’s probably a saving of $1500
alone.
me (hopefully) lots and lots of time to live my life. In other words, no one was willing to not proceed with chemo.
I can see it’s absolute relevance though and agree it would save ALOT of money. The average general ward bed is around $1200 in Qld, intensive care bed close to $3000 - that’s per day. If we looked at the cost effectiveness of saving admissions to wards and at time sadly ICU for neutropenia associated illnesses during chemo alone the saving would be staggering if some patients had access to Oncotype and had the option of saying no benefit to them for chemo.
Just yesterday at chemo I encountered say 10-15 members of staff briefly, used a chair and a bed, the actual drug, my chemo ran late because I needed an electrolyte infusion so the nurse were the into overtime before I left the unit. If I didn’t need chemo I wouldn’t have had my port inserted, that’s probably a saving of $1500
alone.