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What are your first line treatment choices for metastatic combined HCC/Cholangiocarcinoma?

Would you treat as cholangiocarcinoma with a gemcitabine/platinum regimen or would you use a more HCC regimen like atezo/bev or durva/trem?
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Medical Oncology · Mayo Clinic, Rochester
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Combined HCC/Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare phenotype and there is a paucity of data on the right treatment. If a biopsy is obtained, I would try to obtain several sites and send for molecular testing to see the different clones/mutation profiles. In clinic, I have tried to combine gemcitabine/cisplat...

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Medical Oncology · Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
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This diagnosis is mostly reached after a biopsy of an LR-M liver lesion. There are no prospective trials or high-quality data to guide therapy because such patients were excluded from pure BTC or HCC trials.

It is reasonable to treat using an HCC or BTC pathway. I would commit to one and proceed wit...

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