¶ … Cancer Drugs
For the past several decades, the news about cancer in the United States has been increasingly positive and that trend has continued unabated over the past decade. According to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, the overall incidence rate for men has declined by an average of 0.6% every year between 2004 and 2008, while for women, the incidence rate has dropped 0.5% per year from 1998 through 2006 and leveling off from 2006 to 2008 (National Cancer Institute). Just as importantly death rates from cancer have declined since 1975 and have sharply decreased between 19944 and 2008 for both men and women as shown in the graph below from the National Cancer Institute (National Cancer Institute).
There are myriad reasons for this decline in cancer deaths, including better education regarding healthy living, improved diets, and better treatment. Among the treatment options are improved drugs, which have come a long way towards extending life and enhancing quality of life in patients in the past few decades. For this reason, it is important to continue the push for new cancer drugs and to ensure that, once a new drug is found to be effective, it can quickly be given to the patients most in need of treatment.
Research and Development of Cancer Drugs
The process by which a drug goes from the earliest testing and design phase to being available to cancer patients can be a time-consuming and expensive undertaking. The process begins with a sponsor, usually a drug company, making the decision that a particular drug is worth pursuing based on the overall interest in the cancer targeted by the drug, the preclinical data in both cell lines and animal models, and the attractiveness of its properties (Chabner & Longo, 2010, p.29). Also, many companies may determine whether or not their investment is worth the risk, based on demand for the drug. If the drug cannot return the cost of development and a profit, many companies will drop the research...
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