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, approved for the treatment of metastatic melanoma, will cost about the same. Yervoy, approved in 2011 for patients with either previously treated or newly diagnosed advanced melanoma, costs $130,000 for a 12-week course, and some patients take more than one course.ince 2000, the average price of new cancer drugs has increased from between $5,000 and $10,000 per year to more than $120,000 per year, while the average household income for a family of four has dropped by 8 percent over the last decade to $52,000, Kantarjian and colleagues say.