Karnofsky performance score is predictive of survival after palliative irradiation of metastatic bile duct cancer

D Rades, L Bolm, L Kaesmann, T Bartscht - Anticancer Research, 2017 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: Palliative irradiation is effective in alleviating symptoms in patients with
metastatic cancer in general. However, little data exist regarding irradiation of metastatic bile …

Palliative treatment of unresectable bile duct tumours

R Mayer, H Stranzl, U Prettenhofer… - Acta Medica …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Report on outcome of intraluminal high‐dose‐rate iridium‐192 (HDR‐Ir 192)
brachytherapy with or without external radiotherapy in patients with unresectable bile duct …

Outcomes after radio (chemo) therapy for non-metastatic bile duct cancer

L Bolm, L Kaesmann, T Bartscht, SE Schild, D Rades - in vivo, 2017 - iv.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: The role of radio (chemo) therapy for non-metastatic bile duct cancer is not
well defined. This study provides additional data for this rare situation. Patients and …

Role of postoperative radiotherapy in the management of extrahepatic bile duct cancer

S Kim, SW Kim, YJ Bang, DS Heo, SW Ha - International Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Purpose: To analyze the outcome of postoperative radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiation for
patients with extrahepatic bile duct cancer who had undergone either curative or palliative …

Nomogram prediction of survival and recurrence in patients with extrahepatic bile duct cancer undergoing curative resection followed by adjuvant chemoradiation …

C Song, K Kim, EK Chie, JH Kim, JY Jang… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Purpose To develop nomograms for predicting the overall survival (OS) and relapse-free
survival (RFS) in patients with extrahepatic bile duct cancer undergoing adjuvant …

Clinicopathological features of surgically-resected biliary tract cancer following chemo-radiation therapy

S Kobayashi, K Gotoh, H Takahashi, H Akita… - Anticancer …, 2016 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Aim: We retrospectively investigated surgery following chemo-radiation in patients with
biliary tract cancer (BTC) treated at our Institution. Patients and Methods: Among 339 …

Radiotherapy or chemoradiation in unresectable biliary cancer: a retrospective study

S Bisello, M Buwenge, A Palloni, R Autorino… - Anticancer …, 2019 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: To retrospectively evaluate the outcome of patients with unresectable
biliary cholangiocarcinoma (CC) treated with radiotherapy (RT) plus/minus chemotherapy …

Role of palliative radiotherapy in unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: population-based analysis with propensity score matching

F Shao, W Qi, FT Meng, L Qiu… - Cancer management and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background This population-based study evaluated the overall (OS) and cancer-specific
survival (CSS) benefit from palliative radiotherapy (RT) in patients with unresectable …

[HTML][HTML] Postoperative radiotherapy appeared to improve the disease free survival rate of patients with extrahepatic bile duct cancer at high risk of loco-regional …

MY Kim, JH Kim, Y Kim, SJ Byun - Radiation Oncology Journal, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To investigate the outcomes of postoperative radiotherapy (RT), in patients with
extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) cancer by comparing the survival rate between patients …

Factors influencing survival outcome for radiotherapy for biliary tract cancer: a multicenter retrospective study

Y Yoshioka, K Ogawa, H Oikawa, H Onishi… - Radiotherapy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To seek for the possible factors influencing overall survival (OS) with radiotherapy
(RT) for biliary tract cancer. Materials and methods Data were collected retrospectively from …