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A certain disease is classified into 4 stages that distinguish how developed the disease is. Researchers studying a new potential treatment recruited over 100 patients with varying stages of the disease for their study. Half of the patients with stage

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Okay, let me try completing this based solely on the information provided in the original question:

- There is a disease with 4 stages

- Researchers recruited over 100 patients with varying stages of the disease for a study on a new potential treatment

- Half of the patients with stage 2 disease were assigned to the treatment group, while the other half were assigned to the control group

Since there are no specific numbers given, I will make some general assumptions:

- Let's assume there were 120 patients total (since the question states over 100 patients)

- Let's assume there were equal numbers of patients in each stage - so 30 patients in stage 1, 30 patients in stage 2, 30 patients in stage 3, and 30 patients in stage 4.

- Half of the 30 stage 2 patients were assigned to treatment - that's 15 patients

- The other half of the 30 stage 2 patients were assigned to control - that's 15 patients

- The remaining 90 patients (stages 1, 3, and 4) were randomly split between treatment and control.

So in summary:

- Total patients: 120

- Stage 1: 30 patients, randomly split 15 treatment, 15 control

- Stage 2: 30 patients, 15 assigned to treatment, 15 assigned to control

- Stage 3: 30 patients, randomly split 15 treatment, 15 control

- Stage 4: 30 patients, randomly split 15 treatment, 15 control

Please let me know if I have made any incorrect assumptions or if you need me to take a different approach here based on the original question. I'm happy to rework my response.

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