ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Associations between external beam radiotherapy and overall survival in patients with gallbladder cancer: A population-based study.
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- Role of Radiation Therapy for Biliary Tract Cancers.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Review
- Predictive and prognostic models and visualizations of distant metastasis in gallbladder cancer.Medicine · 2025Article
- Construction and validation of novel nomograms based on the log odds of positive lymph nodes to predict the prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Comparison of treatment models for single primary advanced gallbladder cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: There is a lack of studies regarding radiotherapy (RT) in patients with gallbladder cancer (GBC) on the survival benefit after surgery and nonsurgical treatment. Therefore, this study evaluated the impact of external beam RT on the overall survival (OS) of patients with GBC in a real-world setting. Methods: Patients with GBC enrolled from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were examined through Kaplan-Meier survival curves and multivariable Cox regression analyses. Results: A total of 7,866 patients with GBC were screened for the current analysis, of whom 2,130 (27.1%) did not undergo RT or surgery, 209 (2.7%) underwent RT, 4,511 (57.3%) underwent surgery, and 1,016 (12.9%) underwent both RT and surgery. The median OS times were 4 months, 8 months, 16 months, and 22 months ( Conclusion: The study results indicate that adjuvant and palliative radiation treatment was associated with a survival benefit. GBC patients can derive a survival benefit from external beam RT.
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