Cost of biologic immunotherapy for lung cancer

Biological immunotherapy for lung cancer currently refers to the use of two immune checkpoint inhibitors, pablizumab and nivolumab. The cost of these two immune checkpoint inhibitors is currently around $20,000-30,000 per month. It is worth noting that these immune checkpoint inhibitors may sometimes be used alone, for example, in advanced non-small cell lung cancer, if PD-1 or PD-L1 is found to be greater than or equal to 50%, then pabolizumab can be used alone in the first line, and the cost is what was mentioned earlier, while if the expression of PD-1 or PD-L1 is less than 50%, then it may need to be combined with chemotherapy, or If the expression of PD-1 or PD-L1 is less than 50%, then it may be necessary to combine chemotherapy or anti-tumor angiogenesis drugs together, and the cost of bioimmunotherapy will be increased by about 5000-10000 RMB.