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Imatinib on ebay

I am quite surprised to see a box of someone's imatinib on eBay: £399 400 mg 30 pack. Does eBay permit the sale of people's surplus NHS drugs?

Woah bargin!!  I pay 50 EUR per 400mg

Also generic drugs in india are around 200usd per month. Maybe its not NHS drugs but someone gray marketing?

I wonder why folks would not need them any more though? Generally they need to be taken continuously, even for the stomach cancers too. Maybe it was following a death?

Hi, maybe someone has changed to another TKI and has some over, they will only be destroyed .They could help someone out if eBay is cheaper than they are paying out for Imatinib.altho I would offer them for free if it would help some one out .

I think that in the United Kingdom, all drugs returned to pharmacists are destroyed. My mother lived in the Canary Islands and there drugs returned to pharmacists were sorted and sent to poorer countries. This creates a moral dilemma because it suggests that drugs that are not safe for Spanish citizens are safe for citizens of poorer countries.

It would be quite disturbing if an NHS patient were to take a 30 imatinib holiday with a view to making £399 on eBay.

Personally, I think that it is better that drugs are not recirculated by users because all sorts of things can go wrong.

Thats crazy! You can't sell prescription drugs in the USA it's against the law. My Oncologist takes any extras and saves them for poor people or if your insurance is lapsed they give them to you for free. In the USA imatinib through my insurance is $10k dollars US . It's crazy here and I wish someone would shut down the greedy pharma for poor people who can't afford the medicine they need to live. I switched insurances because my wife switched jobs so I was without insurance for 30 days and I ran short of imatinib and luckily my Oncologist saves the meds for instances like this so he gave me 20 days worth for free and I gave him 3 boxes of Tasigna so he could give them to people who need them .