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<(Although I wouldn't have described the CEO's words as 'word games' - just the standard attempt to turn statistics into laymanese.)>

Although that's largely correct since the p value and the hazard ratio more or less correspond, Dew is right that there is a bit of word playing here because the p value communicates a certain good and bad quality that the hazard ratio does not. This has to do with the fact that the HR needs to be considered along with the confidence interval for it, how large that is and whether it overlaps 0. For example, the hazard ratio for 9902a wasn't too bad as a numerical value but its confidence interval overlapped 0, hence the bad p value.