How would you approach a patient with imaging and labs suggestive of potentially resectable cholangiocarcinoma when several core biopsies reveal bridging fibrosis with no malignant cells?

Topics: Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • MD Anderson • NCI-CCC Tumor Board Question • Cholangiocarcinoma • NCI-CCC GI Tumor Board Question

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

I believe the first step would be presenting the patient's imaging and case at a multidisciplinary tumor board for input, especially from GI and surgical oncology, ideally at a higher volume center. You don't specify the route of prior biopsies but I am assuming they are percutaneous. Perhaps yield ...

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Medical Oncologist at University of Virginia
I agree that based on imaging findings, particular...

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