June/July 2021, Vol 2, No 2

Personalized medicine has expanded the treatment options for patients with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). At the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation (CCF), Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA, Professor of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, discussed recent developments in personalized therapies, highlighting genomic alterations that are informing the new therapies for patients with CCA.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to the kinase inhibitor infigratinib (Truseltiq) for the treatment of adult patients with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) that harbors an FGFR2 fusion or other rearrangement.

The primary results of the phase 2 FOENIX-CCA2 clinical trial of futibatinib in patients with previously treated intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements were presented by Lipika Goyal, MD, MPhil, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) represents a group of heterogeneous cancers that originate in the bile ducts that connect the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine. Although the exact prevalence of CCA is unknown, CCA is a rare cancer; approximately 8000 new cases of CCA are diagnosed annually in the United States.

On January 15, 2021, experts in the management of patients with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) convened for a virtual accredited continuing education satellite symposium held during the 2021 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. The goal was to educate healthcare providers on various aspects of CCA, including epidemiology, current standards of care, unmet clinical needs, the safety and efficacy of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors as second-line therapy, and practical approaches to incorporating FGFR inhibitors into the treatment paradigm for the disease.