Acupressure and gentle massage can be used to treat a pinched nerve. Acupuncture may treat a pinched nerve. The main treatment for a pinched nerve is rest. A woman with neck pain from a pinched nerve.
Yervoy is the first drug approved for treating this indication. The FDA has not approved any new first-line medicines in over ten years. A dosage of Yervoy is expected to cost about $30,000; therapy of four infusions over three months will cost around $120,000. The drug is estimated to have a market of more than $400m in 2011.
Keytruda will be an expensive treatment option but Datamonitor Healthcare still anticipates uptake to be rapid after launch. Merck has disclosed that its new PD-1 inhibitor will cost payers $12,500 per month or about $150,000 per year.This does not compare favorably with the cost of treatment with Zelboraf (vemurafenib; Roche/Daiichi Sankyo), which is approximately $64,000 per year, or Yervoy which is approximately $120,000 per year.t is even slightly more expensive than Opdivoâs price in Japan which is approximately $143,000 per year. Keytruda will be an extremely expensive drug but is still likely to be reimbursed due to the unprecedented response rates it has achieved in heavily pretreated patients.