Development of New Cancer Treatment Medications
The process of accumulating components for prospective medications in the use of cancer treatment is an extremely long process. In most cases, the development can take from 7 to 12 years to approve a single drug to be manufactured for patient consumption. It must go through several fascists of laboratory testing. “From a “target” to a “drug”, to “trial” then finally, an approved medication in the fight against cancer” (Giulio Draetta M.D., 2012) Researchers use unique processes that extract compounds from natural organism sources such as oceans, plants, fungal bacteria. They then use the chemical foundations to produce medications for treatment. They start with extracting compounds and sending them to an “isolation lab” to determine what biological activity they c...