Update on the diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma

B Doherty, VE Nambudiri, WC Palmer - Current gastroenterology reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare biliary adenocarcinoma
associated with poor outcomes. Cholangiocarcinoma is subdivided into extrahepatic and …

Biliary tract cancers: current knowledge, clinical candidates and future challenges

NA Tariq, MG McNamara, JW Valle - Cancer management and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are rare with poor prognosis. Due to the advent of genomic
sequencing, new data have emerged regarding the molecular makeup of this disease. To …

Phase I study of chimeric antigen receptor–modified T cells in patients with EGFR-positive advanced biliary tract cancers

Y Guo, K Feng, Y Liu, Z Wu, H Dai, Q Yang… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: This study is an expanded and parallel clinical trial of EGFR-specific chimeric
antigen receptor–engineered autologous T (CART) cell immunotherapy (NCT01869166) to …

Cholangiocarcinoma

M Squadroni, L Tondulli, G Gatta, S Mosconi… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biliary tract cancer accounts for< 1% of all cancers and affects chiefly an elderly population,
with predominance in men. We distinguish cholangiocarcinoma (intrahepatic, hilar and …

Panitumumab in combination with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin does not prolong survival in wild‐type KRAS advanced biliary tract cancer: A randomized phase 2 trial …

F Leone, D Marino, S Cereda, R Filippi, C Belli… - Cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is a rare and lethal disease with few therapeutic
options. Preclinical data suggest that the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway …

[HTML][HTML] A KRAS mutation status-stratified randomized phase II trial of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin alone or in combination with cetuximab in advanced biliary tract …

JS Chen, C Hsu, NJ Chiang, CS Tsai, HH Tsou… - Annals of oncology, 2015 - Elsevier
Addition of cetuximab showed trend, but not significantly, to improve the therapeutic effects
of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin combination for advanced biliary tract cancer in current …

[HTML][HTML] The landscape of targeted therapies for cholangiocarcinoma: current status and emerging targets

DQ Chong, AX Zhu - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a relatively rare malignancy that arises from the epithelial
cells of the intrahepatic, perihilar and distal biliary tree. Intrahepatic CCA (ICC) represents …

Cholangiocarcinoma: Current opinion on clinical practice diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms: A review of the literature and a long-standing experience of a referral …

G Brandi, M Venturi, MA Pantaleo, G Ercolani… - Digestive and Liver …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the oncology landscape, cholangiocarcinoma is a challenging disease in terms of both
diagnosis and treatment. Besides anamnesis and clinical examination, a definitive diagnosis …

New developments in systemic therapy for advanced biliary tract cancer

C Morizane, M Ueno, M Ikeda… - Japanese journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Biliary tract cancer, carcinoma of the extrahepatic bile ducts, carcinoma of the gall bladder,
ampullary carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma are often identified at an …

Molecular pathogenesis of gallbladder cancer: An update

SK Mishra, N Kumari, N Krishnani - Mutation Research/Fundamental and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is the most aggressive gastrointestinal malignancy throughout
the world, with wide geographical variance. It is the subtype of biliary tract malignancy that …