Response to “Cancer care in the pediatric surgical patient: A paradigm to abolish volume-outcome disparities in surgery”
Elvira C. van Dalen, Renée L. Mulder, Huib N. Caron, Leontien C.M. Kremer
20100101
2010 Feb 1
Surgery
Response to “Cancer care in the pediatric surgical patient: A paradigm to abolish volume-outcome disparities in surgery”
Surgery. 2010 Feb;147(2):310-311, Elvira C. van Dalen, Renée L. Mulder, Huib N. Caron, Leontien C.M. Kremer
To the Editors:We read with interest the article by Gutierrez et al,1 who addressed the important question of whether children diagnosed with neuroblastoma or Wilms tumor treated at a high-volume center had a better survival than children treated at a low-volume center. Gutierrez et al1 defined high-volume centers as centers that cumulatively treated more than approximately 50% of patients for each diagnosis; the remainder were classified as low-volume centers. For both tumors, no statistically significant...