Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100427:02:42:00
He started avastin, a free clinical trial, but the second time he needed it, it cost plenty. >> right here you can see it was charged at $27,360 for a dose of the avastin. >> for one dose? $27,000. >> one dose. >> reporter: over the course of his illness, terence had more than 60 chest scans, each about $3,200. >> and the last drug he took was at $200 a pill. >> $200 a pill? >> per pill. >> and how often did he take that? >> every day. >> reporter: that lasted about a month, because in december 2007, terence was rushed to the hospital. the cancer was in his brain. for the four days doctors wor...