I estimate a Cox proportional model in Stata to see what covariates are associated with time to death. One of the covariates measure comorbidities and has 12 categories. One of the categories ("Leukemia") has a ridiculously small hazard ratio and standard error and the upper limit of the confidence intervals is not calculated. In the data, I noticed that people with this specific comorbidity do not experience death but people with any of the 11 comorbidities experience death.

1) Does Cox proportional survival model request an event/category? (e.q. say all males and females must experience the event)?

Any suggestions 2) why I have such a small hazard ratio and no confidence intervals and 3) what to do next?

Many thanks!

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