Hey,
Question: "A new drug ‘X’ is developed for endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women. A pharmaceutical company claims that drug X alone will decrease recurrence of endometrial cancer after surgical treatment by 50% compared to standard therapy alone. The recurrence rate with standard therapy is currently 12%.
Which of the following values represents the maximum incidence of recurrence acceptable for the subjects treated with the new drug plus standard therapy?
a, 12 %
b, 3 %
c, 6 %
How do you calculate the recurrence rate? I fking hate these type of questions.
In my ******* intuitive way of thinking I'd say take the standard drug and you'll get a recurrence rate of 12. Now substract that with the recurrence rate of 6. That would make the net recurrence 6 %.
But if you do the opposite, i.e. taking the new drug first, 6, and then subtracting you'll get -6... But then again, no risk can be negative so maybe I'm just supposed to + that and it'll be 6 anyway...?
Question: "A new drug ‘X’ is developed for endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women. A pharmaceutical company claims that drug X alone will decrease recurrence of endometrial cancer after surgical treatment by 50% compared to standard therapy alone. The recurrence rate with standard therapy is currently 12%.
Which of the following values represents the maximum incidence of recurrence acceptable for the subjects treated with the new drug plus standard therapy?
a, 12 %
b, 3 %
c, 6 %
How do you calculate the recurrence rate? I fking hate these type of questions.
In my ******* intuitive way of thinking I'd say take the standard drug and you'll get a recurrence rate of 12. Now substract that with the recurrence rate of 6. That would make the net recurrence 6 %.
But if you do the opposite, i.e. taking the new drug first, 6, and then subtracting you'll get -6... But then again, no risk can be negative so maybe I'm just supposed to + that and it'll be 6 anyway...?