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Recent studies support the potential of a drug that is derived from the metal iridium to effectively treat cancer. This experimental drug, Drug ZL105, has not been tested for efficacy and toxicity. Imagine that you are the one responsible for approving or denying the use of this drug within the United States. Your job is to propose the testing that is needed for this drug to be determined as safe and effective for the treatment of cancer in humans. In your research and discussion, you should address the questions below.

What model(s) will you use for testing (i.e., animal, cell cultures, computer simulations)? Explain the choice of model, and provide support for the reliability of the model. Discuss the pros and cons of your choice.
In determining the safety and effectiveness of the drug, would it be necessary to test efficacy, toxicity, and lethality? Explain what each of these tests are for and whether or not one or more of the tests are necessary for your determination.
Provide your thoughts on what information you hope to gather from your tests and whether or not the same protocol should be used for various categories of products such as drugs, cosmetics, and herbal medicines.
Your case study assignment should be three to four pages in length and utilize at least three reliable references. Use APA style guidelines in writing this assignment, following APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and referencing.

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Running Head: TESTING OF DRUG ZL105						1
TESTING OF DRUG ZL105		2
HEALTHCARE
TESTING OF DRUG ZL105
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Preferred Model Organisms for Testing Drug ZL105, its Benefits and Drawbacks	3
Safety and Efficacy of the Drug ZL105	4
Personal Thoughts on the Tests and Protocol for Use	5
Conclusion	5
References	7
Introduction
Drugs available in market are safer to use just because they had already passed 4 to 5 clinical trials that included the testing of drugs at different levels. Drug testing is a very complicated process that includes the chemical analysis of a drug by injecting it into a living system. The major problem that arises here is the choice of model organism that is on which organism drug can be tested. Using human, as a model for drug screening, raises many ethical issues on grounds of their safety and staying alive. Therefore, humans not used for the testing of compounds that can be lethal. Alternate models such as bacteria, animals and computer stimulations are also used.
Preferred Model Organisms for Testing Drug ZL105, its Benefits and Drawbacks
Testing of ay drug depend upon the motive behind that testing that is either for laboratory usage only or for the market and pharmaceutical approach. As mentioned by Cagan (2016), when drug is only required for lab purposes animal models are preferred over any other model. However, for a drug that is being tested for disease treatment in humans special considerations are made. This is because every living system functions differently and not responses of any chemical compound received from animal model may show similarity when applied to human model. As supported by Bain (2017), live testing of a drug can present any kind of a complication and therefore, it is not possible to predict that the drug will show similar response in every living system.
However, here the drug under study is ZL105, which can emerge and replace the existing anti-cancerous drug. This is because of its ability to push the cancer cells beyond their proliferating ability but the energy supply is at the same pace and this results in slowing and shutting down of cancerous cells, while normal cells can easily cope up with this. This drug has iridium as its major compound, which is the rarest metal on this earth and hence, is very expensive. Therefore, before testing a compound like this,

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