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Some clinical trials take the first day of treatment as origin of survival time. Some use the day of randomisation, which precedes the treatment. In example 2 (breast cancer study) the researchers used day of mastectomy, which preceded randomisation and marks the onset of exposure to the risk of tumor recurrence. Which of them is better? |