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CCA Summit Live from ASCO 2022

Videos — June 16, 2022

Featuring:

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA, Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center presents an overview of key abstracts on cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Dr Abou-Alfa also provides his perspective on the impact of the data on the management of patients with CCA.

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