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 worked to save him, they billed more than $43,000. that s more than $10,000 a day. really, the only thing i can say for certain that we spent that money on was to confirm that he was dying. reporter: on december 14th, seven years after his diagnosis,
terence foley passed away, with amanda holding his hand. today, years later, she is still blown away by how much it cost to try and save her husband. the total $618,000. did he ever say to you, save me at any cost? i think he would have been absolutely horrified at how much it cost. he would have thought, you could vaccinate 600,000 people, you know, in africa for this. reporter: amanda paid just $10,000 out-of-pocket thanks to health insurance, but to have her husband for another day, she d pay anything. i absolutely would do it all over again. would i want everyone who was in a situation like this to have the same opportunity i had to do whatever it took to save their loved one? absolutely, i d want that. how do we, as a country, as a world, afford all that? reporter: something else amanda doesn t know. did all those expensive treatments actually help her husband live longer?
to save him, they billed more than $43,000. that s more than $10,000 a day. really, the only thing i can say for certain that we spent that money on was to confirm that he was dying. reporter: on december 14th, seven years after his diagnosis, terence foley passed away, with amanda holding his hand. today, years later, she is still blown away by how much it cost to try and save her husband. the total $618,000. did he ever say to you, save me at any cost? i think he would have been absolutely horrified at how much it cost. he would have thought, you could vaccinate 600,000 people, you know, in africa for this. reporter: amanda paid just $10,000 out-of-pocket thanks to health insurance, but to have her husband for another day, she d pay anything. i absolutely would do it all over again. would i want everyone who was in a situation like this to have the same opportunity i had to do whatever it took to save their loved one?
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