Clinical trials in India: Huge contribution to drug development science and humanity Total population of India has crossed 1 billion currently. Though the cancer incidence is much lower than the developed countries but because of huge population size India adds more than 1 million new cases each year. Cancer incidence India vs developed countries is approx. >300 per 100 000 per year. The lower incidence is mainly because of under-reporting, ethnic and racial factors, lifestyle, food habits and shorter life expectancy.
This number of new cases of cancer attracts many sponsors to conduct the clinical trials in India. In recent past the clinical research has gone beyond the boundaries and became global phenomena. The decrease in clinical research in USA indicates the clinical studies have shifted from developed countries. In the year 2002 the percentage of submitted studies done…
