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Competing Risks: Alternatives
•Model
informative censoring
•Model
must be based on untestable assumptions
•Event
free survival
•Like
censoring deaths if competing risk hazard low
•Like
censoring deaths if everyone gets cancer first
•Loss
of power if truly noninformative censoring
•Wilcoxon
like statistic
•Rank
first on death times; break ties with cancer dx
•Like
survival only if everyone dies
•Survival
only
•Not really the question, especially if competing risk hazard
is high