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What is Epoetin?

Epoetin is a synthetic version of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO), which stimulates production of red blood cells in the bone marrow. Epoetin is used in the treatment of anemia resulting from kidney failure or chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Read more...Click to read more below

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Slow my ALS progress 1 0

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Dosages

  1 daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1  

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 22, 2009.