ALLMedicine™ Cholangiocarcinoma Center

May 19th, 2022 - Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a highly malignant tumour. Hepatectomy is an effective treatment for early ICC, but postoperative recurrence greatly affects patient survival. Studies on recurrent ICC after hepatectomy are lacking. To inve...

May 19th, 2022 - Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) arises from the ductular epithelium of the biliary tree, either within the liver (intrahepatic CCA) or more commonly from the extrahepatic bile ducts (extrahepatic CCA). This disease has a poor prognosis and a growing worl...

May 18th, 2022 - As minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approaches to biliary tract cancers become more commonplace, understanding the adequacy of their oncologic performance is key. The National Cancer Database 2010-2016 was queried for patients who underwent hepate...

May 18th, 2022 - Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a malignant tumour arising from the biliary system. In Europe, this tumour frequently presents as a sporadic cancer in patients without defined risk factors and is usually diagnosed at advanced stages with a consequent ...

May 14th, 2022 - Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a devastating liver cancer with extremely high intra- and inter-tumoral molecular heterogeneity, partly due to its diverse cellular origins. We investigated clinical relevance and the molecular mechanisms u...

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...

May 13th, 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...

Apr 28th, 2022 - This is an open-label, multicenter Phase 1 study to evaluate safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of oral LY3410738 in patients with IDH1 R132-mutant advanced solid tumors, including but not limited to cholangiocarcinoma, chondrosarcoma, ...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Currently the standard of care of unresectable non-metastatic cholangiocarcinoma is chemotherapy which has a median survival of 11.7 months (ABC-02 study). While this study included almost 60% of patients with cholangiocarcinomas (intrahepatic, ex...

Apr 26th, 2022 - Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) accounts for 2%~3% of gastrointestinal tumors, and the incidence has been on the rise globally. The pathogenesis of ICC remains unclearly. Compared with palliative resection, the postoperative survival rate of...

Apr 25th, 2022 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To evaluate the safety, tolerability, maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended phase 2 dose, gemcitabine and cisplatin in combination with either ivosidenib or pemigatinib. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate median a...

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...

Mar 10th, 2022 - Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act of 1971, a landmark legislation that committed to funding biomedical research, establishing oncology training programs, and building a nationwide network of cancer treatment centers....