A Closer Look

What Affects Patient Adherence to Oral Chemotherapy?

Dri­ven by patient pref­er­ence and encour­aged by Medicare part D reim­burse­ment, oral chemother­a­pies com­prise nearly half of all new chemother­apy drugs in devel­op­ment. Patients find oral chemother­a­pies desir­able because of the per­ceived con­ve­nience, auton­omy, and decreased adverse effects from inva­sive treat­ments, but oral reg­i­mens are not always sim­ple or free from toxicities.

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Getting the FDA Stamp of Approval

Under the cur­rent sys­tem, med­ica­tions can­not be sold in the United States until the FDA’s Cen­ter for Drug Eval­u­a­tion and Research (CDER) grants approval. CDER’s approval assures con­sumers that pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions are not only safe but also effec­tive for their intended use. Although this works to pre­vent mis­lead­ing, harm­ful, or inef­fec­tive drugs from reach­ing patients, many crit­ics argue that the process is bureau­cratic and slows the arrival of poten­tially life­sav­ing drugs from reach­ing the bed­side. A need to meet the demand for faster approval while ensur­ing safety and effi­cacy has resulted in sev­eral inno­v­a­tive review processes.

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What’s Happening to Our Drug Supply?

The drug short­age has caused treat­ment delays, com­pro­mises, and unknown clin­i­cal out­comes for patients. Some oncol­o­gists have had to cre­ate triage sys­tems to treat the patients who are most likely to be cured. Phar­ma­cists, oncol­o­gists, and anes­the­si­ol­o­gists are frus­trated with drug short­ages and efforts to treat patients with­out crit­i­cal drugs. Learn why this is hap­pen­ing and what’s being done about it.

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Almost Anyone Can Write for Publication

In the ani­mated pic­ture Rata­touille, Remy was inspired by the slo­gan “Any­one Can Cook.” While not every­one can write man­u­scripts, in many ways, writ­ing for pub­li­ca­tion is sim­i­lar to cooking.

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Thinking Small: Nanotechnology Offers New Options for Cancer Treatment and Management

Even if the term is unfa­mil­iar, odds are, nan­otech­nol­ogy is already a part of your every­day life. You may be using a nano prod­uct when apply­ing sun­screen, dis­in­fect­ing the floor, curl­ing your hair, or open­ing a fast-​​food con­tainer. Nan­otech­nol­ogy is being stud­ied, and in many cases imple­mented, in fields rang­ing from elec­tron­ics and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy to mag­net­ics and optics, mate­ri­als devel­op­ment, and biosciences.

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