Development of molecularly targeted therapies in biliary tract cancers: Reassessing the challenges and opportunities

Hepatology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 695-704

  Zhu, Andrew X ^a   Hezel, Aram F ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ARRY 438162; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CEDIRANIB; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; ERLOTINIB; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; PANITUMUMAB; SELUMETINIB; SORAFENIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANDETANIB;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FATIGUE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CISPLATIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 79251469043     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24145     Document Type: Article

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