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.