Latest price information in 2024: Can cabozantinib be bought for 1,500 yuan?

Cabozantinib, which contains the active ingredient cabozantinib, is a cancer drug used to treat adults with: Advanced renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) in people who have previously received cancer drugs called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors. It is also used in patients who have not received previous treatment and whose cancer is at moderate or high risk of getting worse. Cabozantinib is used alone in people with hepatocellular carcinoma (a type of liver cancer) who have been treated with the cancer drug sorafenib.

Cabozantinib is used in differentiated thyroid cancer (a type of cancer that originates in the follicular cells of the thyroid gland) after systemic treatment (affects the whole body) when the cancer has progressed or spread locally or to other parts of the body, when the cancer does not respond to radioactive iodine therapy, or in patients who cannot use radioactive iodine. Cabozantinib is also used to treat adults with medullary thyroid cancer, a cancer that originates in thyroid cells, which produce the hormone calcitonin. Cabozantinib is used when the cancer cannot be removed with surgery and has progressed or spread to other parts of the body.

The original drug Cabozantinib is not marketed in the country and therefore cannot be included in medical insurance. The original cabozantinib drug marketed overseas includes Japanese, Turkish and European versions. The price of tablets may be more than 30,000 yuan, and the price of capsule preparations may be more than 40,000 yuan (prices may fluctuate due to exchange rates). There are also generic drugs produced in other countries overseas, and their pharmaceutical ingredients are basically the same as those of the original drugs. For example, the price of pharmaceuticals produced by Bangladeshi pharmaceutical factories may be more than 2,000 yuan (the price may fluctuate due to the exchange rate), which is relatively cheap.