All of the Following Groups of Patients Have High Rates

question 6

Multiple Choice

All of the following groups of patients have high rates of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma except:

• A) patients with HIV infection.
• B) post-transplant patients treated with immunosuppressive drugs.
• C) patients with autoimmune conditions or cancer who received immunosuppressive chemotherapy.
• D) patients taking NSAIDs.

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive

Refers to a situation where the occurrence of one event means the other cannot occur.

Independent

A term in statistics that describes two or more events that do not affect each other's outcomes.

Multiplicative Rule

In probability, a rule that calculates the probability of two independent events occurring together by multiplying the probability of each event.

Probability

A gauge of an event's occurrence likelihood, numerically between 0 and 1.