Oesophagogastric cancer: this discussion centres around the article entitled - Discrete-choice preference comparison between patients and doctors for the surgical management of oesophagogastric cancer - by Mughal et al.A Commentary on the article is provided by Professor Jane Blazeby and both the article and the Commentary can be accessed free at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.7585/pdf