biliary tract cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants must satisfy all of the following items. Patients with initially unresectable locally advanced biliary tract cancer including intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, hilar cholangiocarcinoma, distal bile duct cancer, and gallbladder cancer (diagnosis of resectablility is based on the standard of each participating institution). Patients who were pathologically diagnosed with biliary tract cancer. Patients who underwent conversion surgery between January 2013 to December 2017 following chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with synchronous multiple cancers. Patients without completed information on CRFs.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Overall survival | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Recurrence rate, sites of recurrent disease, R0 resection rate, postoperative complications, effects of tumor shrinkage and adverse events induced by preoperative chemo(radio)therapy | — |
Countries
Japan,Asia(except Japan)
Contacts
Yokohama City University Department of Gastroenterological Surgery