THERE have been few fundamental contributions to the diagnosis and management of biliary-tract disease in recent years, but a current evaluation of the subject is justified in view of the large ...

Biliary tract disease describes any disease that affects the biliary tract the gall bladder, bile ducts and accompanying structures. Examples include primary sclerosing cholangitis, secondary ...

Hepatobiliary cancers, which include biliary tract cancer (BTC) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), are among the most lethal ...

The results of a clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that chemotherapy combining three different ...

MSD’s PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda has been approved by the FDA as a treatment for locally advanced unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer (BTC) in combination with chemotherapy, the first ...

"Biliary tract cancer is comparatively rare, but it's aggressive and spreads fast. Our accrual of more than 450 patients in a little more than two years really shows there is a need for new ways ...

Obesity and biliary tract cancers: Changing epidemiology. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with camrelizumab and apatinib versus TACE alone in the treatment of unresectable ...

Eisai has launched its new therapy for biliary tract cancer (BTC) Tasfygo in Japan, the first world market for the drug. Tasfygo (tasurgratinib succinate; formerly E7090), a small-molecule ...