Title: Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram for gallbladder cancer patients
after surgery
Version: 1 Date: 20 Jan 2022
Reviewer's report:
Although the manuscript reports on an important topic and is generally well written with a decent
sense of nuance, I have the feeling that the news value of this manuscript is relatively small. In
2019, Xiao et al. already proposed a new nomogram from the SEER database for predicting the
prognosis of gallbladder cancer patients after surgery. External validation and sample size are
extra factors, but still, this is in my opinion the biggest problem of this manuscript.
I think it be worthwhile to include another robust cohort for validation (international cohort) in
order to convince that the proposed nomogram results in more-accurate prognostic prediction
for patients with gallbladder cancer after surgery and to increase the news value.
Title: Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram for gallbladder cancer patients
after surgery
Version: 1 Date: 20 Jan 2022
Reviewer's report:
Although the manuscript reports on an important topic and is generally well written with a decent
sense of nuance, I have the feeling that the news value of this manuscript is relatively small. In
2019, Xiao et al. already proposed a new nomogram from the SEER database for predicting the
prognosis of gallbladder cancer patients after surgery. External validation and sample size are
extra factors, but still, this is in my opinion the biggest problem of this manuscript.
I think it be worthwhile to include another robust cohort for validation (international cohort) in
order to convince that the proposed nomogram results in more-accurate prognostic prediction
for patients with gallbladder cancer after surgery and to increase the news value.
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram for gallbladder cancer patients
after surgery
Version: 1 Date: 20 Jan 2022
Reviewer's report:
Although the manuscript reports on an important topic and is generally well written with a decent
sense of nuance, I have the feeling that the news value of this manuscript is relatively small. In
2019, Xiao et al. already proposed a new nomogram from the SEER database for predicting the
prognosis of gallbladder cancer patients after surgery. External validation and sample size are
extra factors, but still, this is in my opinion the biggest problem of this manuscript.
I think it be worthwhile to include another robust cohort for validation (international cohort) in
order to convince that the proposed nomogram results in more-accurate prognostic prediction
for patients with gallbladder cancer after surgery and to increase the news value.
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