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Will our medicated popsicles soothe the pain symptoms of those who suffer from salivary gland cancer?

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300 men and women (ages 18-60) volunteered, all diagnosed with salivary gland cancer. All volunteers were signed up and promised $100 each for participating.

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Our experimental units were found at hospitals and clinics around the southwest. Letters were individually sent to each of the patients who were found to have this disease. The letter contained information about volunteering for our experiment and what the compensation would be.

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There is six groups in this experiment. 50 will be given 1 non-medicated popsicle a day, another 50 will receive 3 non-medicated popsicles a day, and another 50 will be given 5 non-medicated popsicles a day. These groups will serve as the controls. Next, 50 units will receive 1 medicated popsicle a day, then another 50 will receive 3 medicated popsicles a day, and finally the last group of 50 will receive 5 medicated popsicles a day.

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The Explanatory variable will be our medicated popsicle, with the purpose of soothing pain symptoms of salivary gland cancer patients. The popsicle looks like a regular popsicle, however if it were to go to the market it would be properly labeled.

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At the end of 3 days, we analyzed the pain levels reported by the expiermental units. We asked participants to rate their pain level on a scale from 1-10.

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After receiving 600 applicants, we used a simple random sampling to randomize and choose 300 to be apart of this study. We used the simple random sampling method to make sure that we have a good sample. Some of the potential lurking variables would be severity of cancer, diet, other medicine and environment.

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Our control group is the 150 people NOT receiving a medicated popsicle. The placebo will be a regular, normal cherry pop. The purpose of having a placebo is to rule out any lurking variables and other factors.

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We are able to blind our subjects because they do not know if they’re receiving the placebo or medicated popsicle, also they would not know the difference because they have similar tastes/look the same. This expierment will not a double blind expierment because we know what kind of popsicle we will be giving the subjects.

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We matched people by age and sex prior to the study and randomly picked from the pair who would get the medicated popsicles and who would receive the placebo. We did this in order to decrease the odds of getting bad data, because the age group is so wide.

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With a sample size of 300, our margin of error is 5.7%. This low margin of error is good and means my results should be a good representation of the population.

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We will replicate this study by bringing in 300 new subjects to confirm that the results are valid and significant. We will look in new hospitals and clinics to ensure that we get a good range of data, in hopes of it supporting our first set of results.

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In our experiment, we chose our samples by simple random sampling. Then we made matched pairs based on the severity of the cancer, age and gender. Therefore, we had a significantly diverse sample group. In our data we found that the link between the medicated popsicles led to the decrease of pain symptoms. The link was so strong that we concluded that our data was statistically significant.

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Our experiment was funded by our lab with the help a kickstarter fundraiser. We offered the participants of our expierment $100 ($30,000) total each for their time. The 4 conductors of our expierment agreed to work at a minimum wage of $10.50 ($1,008 total) for the three days of the expierment in order to keep costs down. The total cost of the placebo popsicles was $450 ($1 each), while the total cost of the medicated popsicles was $2250 ($5 each). It cost approximately $2700 to get all the popsicles to the expiermental units on time. In total the expierment costs $31,808.

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Our study and it’s findings was published in several health magazines. Our product did go to market after FDA approval, however a prescription from a doctor is required. Unfortunately some individuals exploited our product and created a replicate that allows for the illegal recreational use. However, our product continues to help those who suffer from throat pain due to salivary gland cancer, along with other typical throat cancers as well.