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Did you know that microsoft excel can give a prognosis on breast cancer treatments?

Excel contains a simple algorithm that doctors usually use to check if a treatment for cancer will work on a patient. //The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project// has detected using excel that nearly 80% of breast cancer treatments will not benefit from chemotherapy but will suffer the side effects anyway. The algorithm simply divided the number of patients into a training and validation population, and was able to arrive at an equation that predicted the likelihood of chemotherapy succeeding after surgery. And with 144 and 151 patients in the two different populations, doctors are fairly certain about the statistical validity of these results.



http://www.exceleverest.com/blog/category/Strange-Uses-of-Excel.aspx
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