To the Editor: Following a retrospective review of New South Wales data, Smith and colleagues concluded that the better long-term survival outcomes following surgery for oesophagogastric cancer at higher-volume centres support surgery only being done at these centres.1 However, much missing data creates uncertainty about this conclusion.
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