The patient tells the nurse about a new drug being tested to treat the disease she was diagnosed with and asks the nurse whether the doctor can prescribe a medication still in the preclinical phase of testing. What is the nurse's best response?
A) "The doctor would have to complete a great deal of paperwork to get approval to prescribe that drug."
B) "Sometimes pharmaceutical companies are looking for volunteers to test a new drug and the doctor could give them your name."
C) "Drugs in the preclinical phase of testing are only tested on animals and so would not be available to you."
D) "Drugs in the preclinical phase of testing are given only to healthy young men and so would not be available to you."
C
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During the preclinical phase of testing drugs are tested on animals and are not available to patients. In phase I, the drug is tested on volunteers who are usually healthy young men. It is only in phase III studies that the drug is made available to prescribers who agree to closely monitor patients getting the medication.
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