A Student Nurse Asks a Nurse Why Some Medications Get

A student nurse asks a nurse why some medications get approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) faster. What is the nurse's best response?

A) The FDA collects a user fee from pharmaceutical companies and uses it to hire more employees to speed up the process.
B) Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to skip the Preclinical Investigation phase if they are developing a chemotherapy drug.
C) The Accelerated Approval Program allows earlier approval of a medication if it is a commonly used drug.
D) A smaller group of patients with a particular disease are selected for the clinical phase trials.