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What is your institutional practice for neoadjuvant therapy prior to transplanting cholangiocarcinoma?

Do you use chemoRT-->cape, gem/cis or gem/cis/durva? And do you include just perihilar or also small Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinomas as well?
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Medical Oncology · University of Wisconsin
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We have largely been following the Mayo Protocol for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma, which is outlined here: A collaborative approach using liver transplant for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma treatment - we use chemoRT and capecitabine or 5FU. I do not think it would be wrong to cycle in some gemcitabin...

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