Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3999129 | Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America | 2009 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
Advanced biliary tract carcinomas represent a group of aggressive diseases that still carries a poor prognosis. Chemotherapy has been shown to provide disease control and may also prolong survival. An established role for systemic therapy in the adjuvant setting is still lacking. This article reviews the available evidence to support indications of systemic chemotherapy in the palliative setting and discuss the attempts to study it in the perioperative settings.
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Fidel David Huitzil-Melendez, Eileen M. O'Reilly, Austin Duffy, Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa,