ALLMedicine™ Cholangiocarcinoma Center

Jun 25th, 2022 - Biliary tract cancers are rare malignancies with a poor prognosis and scarce therapeutic strategies. The significance of BRCAness in this setting is already unknown. Tissue specimens of BTC patients treated with platinum-based chemotherapy have be...

Jun 25th, 2022 - Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a common human pathogen, responsible for a broad spectrum of infections. Sites of infection can vary, but the hepato-biliary system is of particular concern due to the infection-associated formation of gallstones and ...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Mutations involving BRCA1-Associated Protein-1 (BAP1), a nuclear deubiquitinase involved in epigenetic regulation of gene expression, DNA repair, and cellular energetics, have emerged as one of the most common somatic mutations in mali...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an aggressive biliary tract malignancy that remains a clinical challenge with limited treatment options and poor survival. Combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin is the most validated first-...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: The administration of autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) can mediate complete, durable regressions in 20-25% of participants with metastatic melanoma. Recent studies have shown that these TIL predominantly recognize unique...

Oct 25th, 2021 - This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for the indications and technique-dose of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHC). The American Society for Radiation...

May 25th, 2021 - The NCCN Guidelines for Hepatobiliary Cancers focus on the screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment, and management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), gallbladder cancer, and cancer of the bile ducts (intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcino...

Dec 2nd, 2020 - The Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery launched the clinical practice guidelines for the management of biliary tract cancers (cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder cancer, and ampullary cancer) in 2007, then published the 2nd version ...

Jul 16th, 2019 - The purpose of this clinical practice update is to define key principles in the surveillance of hepatobiliary cancers including cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder adenocarcinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with primary sclerosing cholan...

Dec 24th, 2018 - IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis (IgG4-SC) is a distinct type of cholangitis frequently associated with autoimmune pancreatitis and currently recognized as a biliary manifestation of IgG4-related disease. Although clinical diagnostic criteria o...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Primary liver cancer (PLC) is the 2nd most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide and the one cancer with the fastest rising incidence and mortality in the U.S. PLC consists of two main histological subtypes, i.e., hepatocellul...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Mutations involving BRCA1-Associated Protein-1 (BAP1), a nuclear deubiquitinase involved in epigenetic regulation of gene expression, DNA repair, and cellular energetics, have emerged as one of the most common somatic mutations in mali...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: The administration of autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) can mediate complete, durable regressions in 20-25% of participants with metastatic melanoma. Recent studies have shown that these TIL predominantly recognize unique...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an aggressive biliary tract malignancy that remains a clinical challenge with limited treatment options and poor survival. Combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin is the most validated first-...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Among the new cases of bile tract carcinoma (BTC) that are diagnosed every year in the United States, there are approximately 6,500 cases of gallbladder carcinoma, 3,000 cases of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and 3,000 cases of intr...

Jun 17th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients undergoing staged hepatectomy for liver tumors, a technique that combines portal vein ligation and parenchymal in situ split allows for rapid, enhanced hypertrophy of the future liver remnant, and now resear...

May 18th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with multifocal intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA), hepatic arterial infusion pump (HAIP) floxuridine chemotherapy may be an effective alternative to surgery, a cohort study suggests. "We believe that th...

Apr 22nd, 2022 - A marketing authorization application (MAA) has been submitted to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for 2 indications of ivosidenib (Tibsovo): in combination with azacitidine in the frontline treatment of patients with IDH1-mutated acute myeloid...

Apr 21st, 2022 - The safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of the irreversible, small molecule pan-FGFR inhibitor KIN-3248 is under investigation in adult patients with advanced tumors harboring FGFR2 and/or FGFR3 gene alterations, as part of the phase 1 ...

Mar 30th, 2022 - For more than 20 years, investigators have tried numerous targeted therapy strategies against glioblastoma (GBM) that have fallen frustratingly short in establishing clinical benefit.1 That changed in November 2021 when an international team of in...