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Targeted medical therapy of biliary tract cancer: recent advances and future perspectives.

ABSTRACT: The limited efficacy of cytotoxic therapy for advanced biliary tract and gallbladder cancers emphasizes the need for novel and more effective medical treatment options. A better understanding of the specific biological features of these neoplasms led to the development of new targeted therapies, which take the abundant expression of several growth factors and cognate tyrosine kinase receptors into account. This review will briefly summarize the status and future perspectives of antiangiogenic and growth factor receptor-based pharmacological approaches for the treatment of biliary tract and gallbladder cancers. In view of multiple novel targeted approaches, the rationale for innovative therapies, such as combinations of growth factor (receptor)-targeting agents with cytotoxic drugs or with other novel anticancer drugs will be highlighted.

SUBMITTER: Hopfner M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2776833 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

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Targeted medical therapy of biliary tract cancer: recent advances and future perspectives.

Hopfner Michael M Schuppan Detlef D Scherubl Hans H

World journal of gastroenterology 20081201 46

The limited efficacy of cytotoxic therapy for advanced biliary tract and gallbladder cancers emphasizes the need for novel and more effective medical treatment options. A better understanding of the specific biological features of these neoplasms led to the development of new targeted therapies, which take the abundant expression of several growth factors and cognate tyrosine kinase receptors into account. This review will briefly summarize the status and future perspectives of antiangiogenic an ...[more]

PMID: 19084910

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