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Tumour Remain Unchange

The size of the tumour remain unchange after the chemotherapy treatment. The onlogist has given us the decision on whether we want to continue the treatment. The chemotherapy treatment will cost S$4500. Medical insurance will pay S$1200 while mediasave that can be utilised is S$1200 and we are still expected to pay around S$2000 in cash settlement. Government subsidies for chemotherapy treatment is only about 10%. Monthly medicine will cost around S$3500 and there is no guarantee of recovery. How can the middle class or lower class citizen pay this amount of bills in long term? There is no way Mr Khaw, Minister of Health can help these group of patients who have terminal illness financially?

chemotherapy side effects

There is no side effects visible after getting his 4 chemotherapy treatment yesterday. But he is having serious cough during the night time. His appetite is still normal and he is still very alert through out the day. He will be going for his CT scan this Friday to determine whether the tumour has become smaller.

2nd Chemotherapy Session

One course of chemotherapy treatment is break up into two session. This is the second course and also the third chemotherapy session.The total cost of the first course(2 sessions) was $2278.12 with a government subsidy of $238.45. The final amount payable was $2039.67. Incomeshield will pay $1200 while the rest will be pay through our Medisave account. It is visible that the government do not give much subsidy for cancer treatment and therefore having a medical insurance policy is important. Incomeshield will pay a maximum of $1200 per month for one course of chemotherapy treatment.

Chemotherapy

My father was to begin his first chemotherapy treatment today. It cost $1900 for a subsidy patient. My father has a Income shield policy which will pay out $700 while the rest of the cost, $1200 will be deducted through Mediasave. The cost for this treatment is really expensive and specially so if you do not have a hospital insurance policy.