# Why are drugs so hard to make and take so long to come out on the market?

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**Created:** [September 17, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-drugs-so-hard-to-make-and-take-so-long-to-come-out-on-the-market/698700 "2014-09-17T01:37:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-drugs-so-hard-to-make-and-take-so-long-to-come-out-on-the-market/698700/1 "2014-09-17T01:37:01Z")

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I know there is a lot of people complaining no cure for ALS ,MS, Parkinson’s ,HIV , motor neuron disease , dementia , alzheimer’s ,autoimmune diseases and cancer.

Well some cancers have much higher cancer survival rate than other types of cancers.Well Pancreas , Liver ,Bile duct , Esohagus , Lungs , Bronchus ,Stomic , Mutiple Myeloma , Brain and Leukemia have a very bad survival rate. And about 40% of people will get cancer in there life time.Well 1/2 people who have cancer will die.

**Incidence, survival and mortality : Cancer Research UK : CancerHelp UK**  
[http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/what-is-cancer/statistics/incidence-survival-and-mortality](http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/what-is-cancer/statistics/incidence-survival-and-mortality)  
I hear three theories explaining this why drugs are so hard to make and take so long to come to the market.

1.Government retriction , once a chemists finds a computer model that shows results and you doctor prescribes medication add 10 to 15 years to it.All running lab rats tests after tests ,clinical trials and testing. You wont it faster , have people sign up for guinea pigs and lower the testing and you will get 5 year mark than 10 to 15 year mark.

2.The easy diseases have cure and now on to the hard to cure diseases.

1. Drugs have site effect.It is very hard to make a drug that has little to no site effect or does not harm the body.

I hear that new faster computers will allow chemist to bring out new drugs faster. And if we had a quantum computer we will have cure for almost every thing in 10 years…

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