Peer Review History
| Original SubmissionJanuary 12, 2020 |
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PONE-D-20-01006 Choosing the appropriate minimally-invasive approach to treat gynecologic cancers in the context of an enhanced recovery program: insights from a comprehensive cancer center PLOS ONE Dear Dr. Netter, Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process. We would appreciate receiving your revised manuscript by Apr 05 2020 11:59PM. When you are ready to submit your revision, log on to https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/ and select the 'Submissions Needing Revision' folder to locate your manuscript file. If you would like to make changes to your financial disclosure, please include your updated statement in your cover letter. To enhance the reproducibility of your results, we recommend that if applicable you deposit your laboratory protocols in protocols.io, where a protocol can be assigned its own identifier (DOI) such that it can be cited independently in the future. For instructions see: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submission-guidelines#loc-laboratory-protocols Please include the following items when submitting your revised manuscript:
Please note while forming your response, if your article is accepted, you may have the opportunity to make the peer review history publicly available. The record will include editor decision letters (with reviews) and your responses to reviewer comments. If eligible, we will contact you to opt in or out. We look forward to receiving your revised manuscript. Kind regards, Antonio Simone Laganà, M.D., Ph.D. Academic Editor PLOS ONE Additional Editor Comments (if provided): The topic of the manuscript is interesting. Nevertheless, the reviewers raised several concerns: considering this point, I invite authors to perform the required major revisions. In addition, authors may consider the following comments: - In light of the advanced techniques to detect early stage disease, to date it is mandatory to consider even the possibility of fertility-sparing approaches in order to preserve reproductive potential of women affected by gynecological cancers. I invite authors to discuss this point, referring to: PMID: 28868252; PMID: 28840513; PMID: 28188573. - The management of women affected by gynecological cancers needs a particular attention even to the preservation of an appropriate quality of life and sexual function, which risk to be severely impaired by surgical/chemo/radio treatments. I would discuss this point, at least briefly, referring to: PMID: 28625095; PMID: 28275393. Journal Requirements: When submitting your revision, we need you to address these additional requirements: 1. Please ensure that your manuscript meets PLOS ONE's style requirements, including those for file naming. The PLOS ONE style templates can be found at http://www.plosone.org/attachments/PLOSOne_formatting_sample_main_body.pdf and http://www.plosone.org/attachments/PLOSOne_formatting_sample_title_authors_affiliations.pdf 2. Please include your IRB/ethics committee approval number in your ethics statement. 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Please see our Supporting Information guidelines for more information: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/supporting-information. [Note: HTML markup is below. Please do not edit.] Reviewers' comments: Reviewer's Responses to Questions Comments to the Author 1. Is the manuscript technically sound, and do the data support the conclusions? The manuscript must describe a technically sound piece of scientific research with data that supports the conclusions. Experiments must have been conducted rigorously, with appropriate controls, replication, and sample sizes. The conclusions must be drawn appropriately based on the data presented. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: No ********** 2. Has the statistical analysis been performed appropriately and rigorously? Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 3. Have the authors made all data underlying the findings in their manuscript fully available? The PLOS Data policy requires authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception (please refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript PDF file). The data should be provided as part of the manuscript or its supporting information, or deposited to a public repository. For example, in addition to summary statistics, the data points behind means, medians and variance measures should be available. If there are restrictions on publicly sharing data—e.g. participant privacy or use of data from a third party—those must be specified. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 4. Is the manuscript presented in an intelligible fashion and written in standard English? PLOS ONE does not copyedit accepted manuscripts, so the language in submitted articles must be clear, correct, and unambiguous. Any typographical or grammatical errors should be corrected at revision, so please note any specific errors here. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: No ********** 5. Review Comments to the Author Please use the space provided to explain your answers to the questions above. You may also include additional comments for the author, including concerns about dual publication, research ethics, or publication ethics. (Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: PONE-D-20-01006 In this article the authors tried to compare the characteristics of procedures for gynecologic cancers conducted with laparoscopy or robotic-assisted laparoscopy. Results showed that expert surgeons from the center preferentially choose robotic-assisted laparoscopy to perform complex gynecologic oncological procedures. The topic of this manuscript is interesting and falls within the scope of the journal. Moreover, the study methodology is well described, and the results are precisely presented. Reviewer #2: I was pleased to revise the manuscript entitled “Choosing the appropriate minimally-invasive approach to treat gynecologic cancers in the context of an enhanced recovery program: insights from a comprehensive cancer center” (Manuscript Number: PONE-D-20-01006). The study was approved by the local Institutional Review Board and written informed consent was obtained from all patients enrolled in this study. In general, this manuscript was aimed to compare the characteristics of procedures for gynecologic cancers conducted with conventional laparoscopy (CL) or robotic-assisted laparoscopy (RAL) in the context of an enhanced recovery program (ERP). In my honest opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Nevertheless, there are different methodological limits that impede conclusions. The manuscript presents different limits as reported below: • All the text needs a language revision by a native English speaker person, in order to improve its readability. • I would suggest checking the use of abbreviation, which should be reported in the extended form at the first use both in the abstract and manuscript and avoid abbreviation explanation. • Abstract. Based on the abstract it is unclear the role of enhanced recovery program in the manuscript. • Methods. I would suggest better clarifying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Both for the prospective study and both for the population included in the analysis. It is unclear who was collected in the database. • The results are a description of the population underwent minimally invasive surgery for gynecologic oncological disease at the Institut Paoli-Calmettes. The comparison between CL and RAL is strongly limited by the differences between women underwent one or the other surgical technique based primarily on the surgeon choice, which is based on the patient characteristics and required surgical procedure. More than a description of population characteristics is not possible considering these differences. The logistic regression shows this point, clarifying that other factors instead of the minimally invasive approach are actually cause of the observed differences. • Discussion. Lines 218-223. This interpretation is unclear, particularly about the compliance with ERP. No comparison between before and after the introduction of ERP is provided. The results of logistic regression show how the observed differences between the two population are not related to the surgical approach but to other confounders. • The interpretation of operative time is questionable if not corrected for all the possible confounders related to the difference between the two population. • Line 259. Why should the observational design be a weakness? • Study limits should be improved and better reported. ********** 6. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. 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Choosing the most appropriate minimally invasive approach to treat gynecologic cancers in the context of an enhanced recovery program: insights from a comprehensive cancer center PONE-D-20-01006R1 Dear Dr. Netter, We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been judged scientifically suitable for publication and will be formally accepted for publication once it complies with all outstanding technical requirements. Within one week, you will receive an e-mail containing information on the amendments required prior to publication. When all required modifications have been addressed, you will receive a formal acceptance letter and your manuscript will proceed to our production department and be scheduled for publication. Shortly after the formal acceptance letter is sent, an invoice for payment will follow. 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With kind regards, Antonio Simone Laganà, M.D., Ph.D. Academic Editor PLOS ONE Additional Editor Comments (optional): Authors performed the required corrections, which were positively evaluated by the reviewers. I am pleased to accept this paper for publication. Reviewers' comments: Reviewer's Responses to Questions Comments to the Author 1. If the authors have adequately addressed your comments raised in a previous round of review and you feel that this manuscript is now acceptable for publication, you may indicate that here to bypass the “Comments to the Author” section, enter your conflict of interest statement in the “Confidential to Editor” section, and submit your "Accept" recommendation. Reviewer #1: All comments have been addressed Reviewer #2: All comments have been addressed ********** 2. Is the manuscript technically sound, and do the data support the conclusions? The manuscript must describe a technically sound piece of scientific research with data that supports the conclusions. Experiments must have been conducted rigorously, with appropriate controls, replication, and sample sizes. The conclusions must be drawn appropriately based on the data presented. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 3. Has the statistical analysis been performed appropriately and rigorously? Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 4. Have the authors made all data underlying the findings in their manuscript fully available? The PLOS Data policy requires authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception (please refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript PDF file). The data should be provided as part of the manuscript or its supporting information, or deposited to a public repository. For example, in addition to summary statistics, the data points behind means, medians and variance measures should be available. If there are restrictions on publicly sharing data—e.g. participant privacy or use of data from a third party—those must be specified. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 5. Is the manuscript presented in an intelligible fashion and written in standard English? PLOS ONE does not copyedit accepted manuscripts, so the language in submitted articles must be clear, correct, and unambiguous. Any typographical or grammatical errors should be corrected at revision, so please note any specific errors here. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 6. Review Comments to the Author Please use the space provided to explain your answers to the questions above. You may also include additional comments for the author, including concerns about dual publication, research ethics, or publication ethics. (Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: In this article the authors tried to compare the characteristics of procedures for gynecologic cancers conducted with laparoscopy or robotic-assisted laparoscopy. However, authors responded fully to the reviewers' requests. Thanks Reviewer #2: I was pleased to revise the manuscript entitled “Choosing the appropriate minimally-invasive approach to treat gynecologic cancers in the context of an enhanced recovery program: insights from a comprehensive cancer center” (Manuscript Number: PONE-D-20-01006). The study was approved by the local Institutional Review Board and written informed consent was obtained from all patients enrolled in this study. In general, this manuscript was aimed to compare the characteristics of procedures for gynecologic cancers conducted with conventional laparoscopy (CL) or robotic-assisted laparoscopy (RAL) in the context of an enhanced recovery program (ERP). In my honest opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Moreover, the authors addressed all the suggested revisions, and I appreciated the manuscript improvement. ********** 7. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. Reviewer #1: No Reviewer #2: No |
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PONE-D-20-01006R1 Choosing the most appropriate minimally invasive approach to treat gynecologic cancers in the context of an enhanced recovery program: insights from a comprehensive cancer center Dear Dr. Netter: I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been deemed suitable for publication in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! Your manuscript is now with our production department. If your institution or institutions have a press office, please notify them about your upcoming paper at this point, to enable them to help maximize its impact. If they will be preparing press materials for this manuscript, please inform our press team within the next 48 hours. Your manuscript will remain under strict press embargo until 2 pm Eastern Time on the date of publication. For more information please contact onepress@plos.org. For any other questions or concerns, please email plosone@plos.org. Thank you for submitting your work to PLOS ONE. With kind regards, PLOS ONE Editorial Office Staff on behalf of Dr. Antonio Simone Laganà Academic Editor PLOS ONE |
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