Multimodal Treatment of Cholangiocarcinoma

Dirk Graf, Verena Keitel, Dieter Häussinger

Abstract


Cholangiocarcinomas (CCA) belong to a heterogeneous group of malignant tumours, which arise from the biliary tree via malignant transformation of cholangiocytes, hepatocytes or from hepatic progenitor cells. Even though clinical diagnosis and management of CCA improved significantly during the last decades, this malignant disease is still associated with a dismal prognosis. More and more multimodal therapeutic strategies are integrated into the treatment schedule. In selected patients treatment allocation should be based on a personalized medicine rather than guideline-based medicine by a multidiciplinary board. This review summarizes the current epidemiology, classification, diagnosis and management of CCAs and illustrates controversial areas of therapeutic strategies.

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cholangiocarcinoma, ALPSS, liver transplantation, radiofrequency ablation, transarterial chemoembolization, chemotherapy

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