The progress and advances of biliary tract carcinoma chemotherapy / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Compared with other tumors of digestive system such as colorectal cancer, the overall survival for advanced biliary tract carcinoma has not been prolonged greatly although some progress has been made on the optimization of the treatment. One of the reasons is that there is no effective chemotherapy for biliary tract cancer yet. In this review, we summarized the recent research findings on chemotherapy for BTC , thereby providing guidance on clinical practice.