Censored Isn't Cured
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Half the hazard. Twice the lifespan.

Your arithmetic just changed its occupation.

Time to an event: set the start and what will count;
The endpoint and the clock define the story you recount.
Death or recurrence? Define the event we track;
You wrote 'something happened.' The protocol sent it back.
Right-censored: event-free until the last time seen;
Beyond that point, the record leaves a gap upon the screen.
A study ends, or contact stops: preserve the time we know;
You can't award eternal life to people who let go.
Kaplan-Meier steps down when observed events occur;
Censor marks alone don't make that survival curve stir.
They change who's at risk at the later event times;
Your little tick marks carry more than decorative lines.
Independent censoring is an assumption to defend;
People leaving when they're sicker can distort the trend.
I check the follow-up; you check the chart's physique;
Your curve looks fit because your missing patients couldn't speak.

Censored isn't cured. Mark the time we knew.
Hazard is a rate among the event-free crew.
A risk needs a period; let the clock come through.
Half the hazard doesn't promise twice the years for you.
Censored isn't cured. Mark the time we knew.
Hazard is a rate among the event-free crew.
A risk needs a period; let the clock come through.
Half the hazard doesn't promise twice the years for you.

Hazard: instantaneous event rate among
Those still event-free when the next moment comes along.
Hazard ratio: compare those rates at a time;
Calling it a risk ratio is a different kind of rhyme.
Point-five says half the hazard for the groups compared;
Cumulative risks need more of the story to be shared.
Those risk sets change as events and censoring accrue;
Which people still remain affects the rates in view.
Cox proportional hazards holds the ratio constant through
The follow-up, while baseline hazards can move.
Check that assumption; one number can conceal
An early and a late pattern with a different feel.
Show curves, time-specific risks and uncertainty beside;
A trophy-sized hazard ratio has plenty left to hide.
You said, "I doubled life!" from the number on your page;
Your abstract grew a beard before your data reached that age.

Censored isn't cured. Mark the time we knew.
Hazard is a rate among the event-free crew.
A risk needs a period; let the clock come through.
Half the hazard doesn't promise twice the years for you.
Censored isn't cured. Mark the time we knew.
Hazard is a rate among the event-free crew.
A risk needs a period; let the clock come through.
Half the hazard doesn't promise twice the years for you.

Median survival is where the curve first hits one half or less;
If it never falls that far, an estimate would be a guess.
Restricted mean survival: area under the curve,
Up to a stated time; that's the horizon to preserve.
Comparisons still need design and assumptions laid out;
A survival model can't remove every causal doubt.
A lower hazard can matter; explain what it means;
Keep patients, time and endpoints visible between the screens.

Censored isn't cured. Mark the time we knew.
Hazard is a rate among the event-free crew.
A risk needs a period; let the clock come through.
Half the hazard doesn't promise twice the years for you.
Censored isn't cured. Mark the time we knew.
Hazard is a rate among the event-free crew.
A risk needs a period; let the clock come through.
Half the hazard doesn't promise twice the years for you.

Everyone who left my show had a brilliant night.

You don't know what happened after they went out of sight.

Fair. Censored isn't delighted, either.