Answers to Cancer- Part 1: Journey of a drug - Laboratory to Public
Answers to Cancer- Part 1: Journey of a drug - Laboratory to Public It takes several stages of operation for a potential drug (also vaccine/ radiopharmaceutical) to be a licensed product 1. Discovery Drug is defined as a substance meant for diagnosis, cure, reduction, treatment or prevention of disease. Drug must be recognized by an official pharmacopoeia or registered drug manual of a particular country[1-2]. A potential new drug is proposed by either understanding knowledge of the disease or by new insight of the disease or by study on the population worldwide to find out where the occurrence of the disease is substantially less. The food habit of the population of the last category may reveal the cause of lesser occurrence of a particular disease. Let's say if they consume a special category of oil, or seed, then natural products are extracted from those food items and one of the natural prod...
