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ArticleHepatobiliary surgery and nutrition2025

Predictive model for very early recurrence of patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: a machine learning approach.

Jun Kawashima, Yutaka Endo, Zayed Rashid, Abdullah Altaf, Selamawit Woldesenbet, Diamantis I Tsilimigras, Alfredo Guglielmi, Hugo P Marques, Shishir K Maithel, Bas Groot Koerkamp and 4 more

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  1. Reconsidering predictive models in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma.Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition · 2026
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Jun KawashimaDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1072-0776
Yutaka EndoDepartment of Transplant Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Zayed RashidDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Abdullah AltafDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Selamawit WoldesenbetDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Diamantis I TsilimigrasDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Alfredo GuglielmiDepartment of Surgery, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Hugo P MarquesDepartment of Surgery, Curry Cabral Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal.
Shishir K MaithelDepartment of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Bas Groot KoerkampDepartment of Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Carlo PulitanoDepartment of Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Federico AucejoDepartment of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, USA.
Itaru EndoDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Timothy M PawlikDepartment of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7994-9870

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Background: Although offering the best chance of potential cure for patients with localized perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA), resection has been associated with high morbidity and sometimes poor long-term outcomes due to recurrence. We sought to develop a predictive model to identify individuals at high risk for very early recurrence (VER) after curative-intent surgery for pCCA. Methods: Patients who underwent curative-intent surgery for pCCA between 2000-2023 were identified from a multi-institutional database. An eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model was developed to estimate the risk of VER, defined as recurrence within 6 months after resection. The relative importance of clinicopathologic factors was determined using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values. Results: Among 434 patients undergoing curative-intent resection for pCCA, 65 (15.0%) patients developed VER. Median overall survival (OS) among patients with and without VER was 8.4 [interquartile range (IQR) 6.6-11.3] versus 38.5 (IQR 31.9-45.7) months (P<0.001). An XGBoost model was able to stratify patients relative to the risk of VER [low-risk: 6-month recurrence-free survival (RFS) 94.6% Conclusions: A novel, machine learning based model was able to predict accurately the chance of VER after curative-intent resection of pCCA. In turn, the tool may help surgeons in the selection of patients likely to benefit the most from resection, as well as counsel individuals about the anticipated risk of recurrence in the early post-operative period.

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machine learning (ML)online calculatorPerihilar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA)predictive modelvery early recurrence (VER)

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