Magnitude of combination therapy of radical resection and external beam radiotherapy for patients with carcinomas of the extrahepatic bile duct and gallbladder

• Published in: Digestive diseases and sciences Vol. 50; no. 12; pp. 2231 - 2242
• Main Authors: ITOH, Hiroshi, NISHIJIMA, Koji, KUROSAKA, Yoshiyuki, TAKEGAWA, Shigeru, KIRIYAMA, Masato, DOHBA, Shotaro, KOJIMA, Yasuhiko, SAITOH, Yasuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer 01.12.2005; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Bile Duct Neoplasms - mortality; Bile Duct Neoplasms - pathology; Bile Duct Neoplasms - therapy; Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic - pathology; Biological and medical sciences; Biopsy, Needle; Brachytherapy - methods; Carcinoma - mortality; Carcinoma - pathology; Carcinoma - therapy; Cholecystectomy - methods; Cohort Studies; Combined Modality Therapy; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gallbladder Neoplasms - mortality; Gallbladder Neoplasms - pathology; Gallbladder Neoplasms - therapy; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Predictive Value of Tests; Probability; Proportional Hazards Models; Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Survival Rate; Treatment Outcome; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; Human; Residual tumor; Drug combination; Carcinoma; Extrahepathic bile duct; Metabolic diseases; Malignant tumor; Electrontherapy; Magnitude; Radiotherapy; external beam radiotherapy; Radical resection; Surgery; Gastroenterology; External; Gallbladder; Combined treatment; extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma; gallbladder carcinoma

The present study sought to identify the therapeutic efficacy of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for carcinomas of the extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) and gallbladder. Twenty-one patients with pathologically verified EHBD carcinoma and 18 patients with gallbladder carcinoma were analyzed re...