Biliary Tract Cancer Video Perspectives

In this video playlist, Daneng Li, MD, City of Hope medical oncologist, discussed:

• the current state of biliary tract cancer treatment, including increased understanding of the disease's "heterogeneous" nature;
• risk factors for the cancer's development, and the cancer's connection with the conditions primary sclerosing cholangitis and ulcerative colitis, along with other liver diseases;
• the need for more focused effort into biliary tract cancer, owing to the cancer's rare nature;
• developments in targeted therapies that provide "encouraging" data for the future of biliary tract cancer treatment;
• the importance of catching the disease early, and why biliary tract cancer is what he calls a "sneaky diagnosis";
• and the treatment outlook for biliary tract cancer patients, and the current level of efficacy of chemotherapy regimens and combinations of chemotherapy and immunotherapy.