Continuous Positive Airway Pressure is the most popular and effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. It works by pushing air into the back of the throat where throat tissues collapse during sleep. It acts by âsplintingâ the airway open allowing for inhaling and exhaling of air.
1 Chemotherapy often is combined with radiation for treating advanced cervical cancer. 2  Chemotherapy typically costs $10,000-$200,000, depending on which drugs are used, how they are administered and the number of treatments required. A study published in the journal Gynecologic Oncology reports that a commonly used treatment for cervical cancer, the chemotherapy drug Cisplatin combined with radiation, typically costs about $40,000 total, while adding the drug Gemcitabine increased the total cost to more than $60,000.
Conclusions: In this model, CP is an acceptable alternative to cisplatin for the treatment of these patients with an increase in cost of only $13,654/QALY. The addition of topotecan did not increase survival enough to justify the increased cost. Keywords: cervical cancer, chemotherapy, cisplatin, paclitaxel, topotecan.iscussion. Cisplatin chemotherapy is commonly used for the treatment of cervical cancer. This includes both as a radiation sensitizing agent and as a systemic treatment for advanced, persistent or recurrent cervical cancer.