Liver transplantation can provide significant outcomes for unresectable biliary tract cancers, but patient selection is critical.
- 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates are 88%, 68%, and 58%, respectively.
- Recurrence occurs in 40.8% of patients, with a median time to recurrence of 16 months.
Consider lymph node positivity, ICCA subtype, and tumor size as key predictors of recurrence to guide surgical decision-making.
- Pretransplant diagnoses often differed from final pathology in 26.5% of cases, indicating diagnostic challenges.
Journal Article by Campbell S, Ahmed O (…) Doyle MBM et 4 al. in Ann Surg Oncol
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