Sen. Dick Durbin brought the story of SIUC baseball coach Dan Callahan's struggles to pay for his cancer treatment
to the Senate floor yesterday. Treatments of the drug
Avastin appear to help reduce Callahan's melanoma but at a cost of
over $13,000 per dose. Callahan's doctors are wanting to administer a dose of the drug every three weeks. So far, treatment has run over $82,000 and Callahn's insurance company,
WellPoint,
has said it will no longer foot the bill for additional treatments.
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