Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

100% — 35% = 20%?

English answer:

the 35% decrease is compared with the previous time, the 80% is the overall decrease

Added to glossary by Manuel Cedeño Berrueta
Feb 7, 2007 01:39
17 yrs ago
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English term

100% — 35% = 20%?

English Medical Medical (general) Cancer & mathematics_understanding tumor reduction
Hello again.
Can someone explain this summation/subtraction to me, please?

“This is to let you know that Mrs. XX is doing extremely well and she had more than 35% reduction in the volume of her disease compared to the previous time.
If we compare the volume of disease she had when she came here to the volume of disease that she has now, she is down now to 20% of the original tumor volume.”
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From the first sentence, I understand that the reduction is +35% and 65% of the tumor remains;

but from the second sentence I understand that the reduction is 80% and only 20% of the original tumor is remaining.

What am I misunderstanding?

Many thanks for your help,
Manuel

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the 35% decrease is compared with the previous time, the 80% is the overall decrease

Pretty sure
Peer comment(s):

agree Can Altinbay : That's how I read it.
3 mins
agree Michael Barnett : That's right. The previous visit had shown a 69.2% overall improvement. ;-)
21 mins
agree ErichEko ⟹⭐
42 mins
agree RHELLER : yeah! word problems :-)
1 hr
agree Anton Baer : Sounds like prev measurement was 27% of original
1 hr
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
9 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
16 hrs
agree Sophia Finos (X)
18 hrs
agree Jörgen Slet
19 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks a million! It is clear now. It seems that I have to study summation & subtraction again. "
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