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		dstick on Aug 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Real... Gotcha, and that makes sense. Seems like a big time saver regardless. Are we talking months or years, that are shaved off?

gumby on Aug 1, 2020 [–]

Typically years. We had a program for a drug that caused bladder cancer in rats. The original mfr had spent a couple of years figuring out that it was specific to rats.

I think the current stats are that the average drug time to approval is 14 years.

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