Cholangio Cancer
Data on cholangio cancer detailed by researchers at Chiang Mai University, Medical Department
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 21st, 2007
In this recent report published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, researchers in Chiang Mai, Thailand conducted a study "To study the activity of gemcitabine and cisplatin in a cohort of patients with inoperable or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma. Chemotherapy-naive patients with pathologically proven cholangiocarcinoma, receiving treatment that consisted of gemcitabine at 1250 mg/m(2) in a 30-min infusion on d 1 and 8, and cisplatin at 75 mg/m(2) at every 21-d cycle, were retrospectively analyzed."
"From June 2003 to December 2005, 42 patients were evaluated. Twelve patients (28%) had unresectable disease and 30 (72%) had metastatic disease. There were 28...
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