This is the kind of statistics that really tugs at your heart strings. This is a Kaplan–Meier chart: http://oncology101.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/OPTMAL_su

This is the kind of statistics that really tugs at your heart strings. This is a Kaplan–Meier chart: http://oncology101.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/OPTMAL_survival-curve1.jpg http://oncology101.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/OPTMAL_sur... Everytime the line takes a step down, at least one person has died. The only happy ending is that less people die, and a really happy ending is when significantly less people die in the treatment group than the control group. Really puts things into perspective.