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Given the results from the BILCAP trial presented at ASCO, would you change to or initiate therapy with capecitabine for patients with biliary tract cancer in the post-operative setting?

For patients receiving adjuvant gemcitabine alone, would you now switch to adjuvant capecitabine alone?
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Medical Oncology · Stanford University School of Medicine
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The BILCAP study represents the first data from a large, randomized, prospective, adequately-powered trial demonstrating a survival benefit for adjuvant therapy in this difficult-to-treat and relatively rare cancer.

Given that capecitabine is relatively well tolerated, I would likely change from gemc...

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