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The Latest Research in Biliary Tract Cancers Presented at ASCO GI 2021

At the CCA Summit held during the 2021 ASCO Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium, Rachna T. Shroff, MD, MS, Chief, Section of GI Medical Oncology, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, discussed 15 clinical trials that were presented at the ASCO GI Cancers Symposium on cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and hepatobiliary diseases. She highlighted key advances related to chemotherapy, targeted therapies, and biomarkers in the management of biliary tract cancers, including CCA.

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Continuing Progress in Cholangiocarcinoma and Bilary Tract Cancers

By Milind M. Javle, MD

Dear Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to introduce the March issue of CCA News. Once again, we have several recent developments in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) clinical research, and these have been reviewed by leaders in the field.

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The Urgent Need to Raise Awareness to Cholangiocarcinoma and Fund Research

By Teresa Delcorso-Ellmann

I first learned of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) in 2015, when my husband Steve was diagnosed with stage IV inoperable intrahepatic CCA and was given a prognosis of less than a year to live. He defied the prognosis and survived for 40 months, until his death in March 2019. When he was diagnosed, neither one of us had ever heard the word “cholangiocarcinoma” and did not know it was possible to have cancer in the bile duct. We both knew that a diagnosis of other gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, such as pancreatic or colon cancer, could be catastrophic and were stunned to realize that the treatment options and outcomes for patients with CCA were the most dismal of all GI cancers.

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