ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy for Unresectable Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma, a Comprehensive Review.
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- Clinical efficacy of HAIC combined with TACE in patients with unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- Hepatic Artery Infusion Chemotherapy for Cholangiocarcinoma in 2025.Liver cancer · 2026Review
- Recent advancements in systemic therapy for biliary tract cancers: a literature review.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Review
- Hot Topics in the Surgical Treatment of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: A Narrative Review of Current Managements.Cancers · 2025Review
- Therapeutic Advances in Initially Unresectable Locally Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Emerging Treatments and the Role of Liver Transplantation.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Review
- Conversion treatment for advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: Opportunities and challenges.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Review
- Efficacy and safety of arterial FOLFOX chemotherapy plus anti-PD-(L)1 immunotherapy as a first-line treatment for unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a propensity score matching analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
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- Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy plus lenvatinib with or without programmed cell death protein-1 inhibitors for advanced cholangiocarcinoma.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
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- Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy following simultaneous metallic stent placement and iodine-125 seed strands for advanced cholangiocarcinoma causing malignant obstructive jaundice: a propensity score matching study.Japanese journal of radiology · 2022Article
- DEB-TACE with irinotecanFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is the second most common primitive liver cancer. Despite recent advances in the surgical management, the prognosis remains poor, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%. Intrahepatic CCA (iCCA) has a median survival between 18 and 30 months, but if deemed unresectable it decreases to 6 months. Most patients have a liver-confined disease that is considered unresectable because of its localization, with infiltration of vascular structures or multifocality. The peculiar dual blood supply allows the delivery of high doses of chemotherapy via a surgically implanted subcutaneous pump, through the predominant arterial tumor vascularization, achieving much higher and more selective tumor drug levels than systemic administration. The results of the latest studies suggest that adequate and early treatment with the combination approach of hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) and systemic (SYS) chemotherapy is associated with improved progression-free and overall survival than SYS or HAI alone for the treatment of unresectable iCCA. Current recommendations are limited by a lack of prospective trials. Individualization of chemotherapy and regimens based on selective targets in mutant iCCA are a focus for future research. In this paper we present a comprehensive review of the studies published to date and ongoing trials.
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