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Maybe you could even get 1-(1-0.25)*(1-0.5)=0.625 complete tumour regression with a combined treatment.


Presuming that each treatment has an independent chance of success.


Actually it's more than likely that the combination will reduce the chance of success as chemotherapy will wipe out the immune system (generally). Although some groups have shown very preliminary results that the combination may work it has to be given in a specific timeframe (in the order of days) and would work in specific subsets of the population.




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