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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Background: The presence of infective microorganisms in the bilio-pancreatic tract is believed to be important in both the onset and outcome of acute biliary pancreatitis. In this study ...

In a phase 2 trial (CTRI/2023/07/055785), ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1; Kadcyla) was well-tolerated in HER2-positive biliary tract adenocarcinoma, but it did not show a statistically significant ...

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Gallstones are solid, pebble-like masses that form in the gallbladder or the biliary tract (the ducts leading from the liver to the small intestine ... Imaging scans use different technologies to ...

"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 ...

Background: Anti-programmed cell death protein 1 and its ligand (anti-PD1/PDL1) have been proposed as a promising therapeutic option for advanced biliary tract cancer (aBTC). Given the scarce ...

Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade in resectable hepatocellular carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analyisis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers ...

These allow you to hold in feces until you are able to get to a bathroom to release the contents into the toilet. Your digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the biliary ...