Title: Burden of Gastrointestinal Cancers in Asia, 1990–2019
Version: 0 Date: 21 Feb 2025
Reviewer's report:
Excellent work on the burden of GI cancers in Asia using the GBD study. I have no major
concerns with the methodology. I have a few questions for clarification/improvement of the
paper.
1 - Is there a specific reason why the authors focused on data from the 2019 GBD study and did
not evaluate data from the 2021 GBD database?
2 - It would be very interesting if the authors could stratify the analysis of GI cancer burden by
sociodemographic index (SDI) in both 1990 and 2019.
3 - No study is perfect. Please be more transparent about the limitations of this study in the
discussion and report the inherent limitations of the GBD database and study analyses in more
detail.
Title: Burden of Gastrointestinal Cancers in Asia, 1990–2019
Version: 0 Date: 21 Feb 2025
Reviewer's report:
Excellent work on the burden of GI cancers in Asia using the GBD study. I have no major
concerns with the methodology. I have a few questions for clarification/improvement of the
paper.
1 - Is there a specific reason why the authors focused on data from the 2019 GBD study and did
not evaluate data from the 2021 GBD database?
2 - It would be very interesting if the authors could stratify the analysis of GI cancer burden by
sociodemographic index (SDI) in both 1990 and 2019.
3 - No study is perfect. Please be more transparent about the limitations of this study in the
discussion and report the inherent limitations of the GBD database and study analyses in more
detail.
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Burden of Gastrointestinal Cancers in Asia, 1990–2019
Version: 0 Date: 21 Feb 2025
Reviewer's report:
Excellent work on the burden of GI cancers in Asia using the GBD study. I have no major
concerns with the methodology. I have a few questions for clarification/improvement of the
paper.
1 - Is there a specific reason why the authors focused on data from the 2019 GBD study and did
not evaluate data from the 2021 GBD database?
2 - It would be very interesting if the authors could stratify the analysis of GI cancer burden by
sociodemographic index (SDI) in both 1990 and 2019.
3 - No study is perfect. Please be more transparent about the limitations of this study in the
discussion and report the inherent limitations of the GBD database and study analyses in more
detail.
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