Tokyo, March 29 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061093) titled 'A study of surgical treatment as conversion therapy for initially unresectable biliary tract carcinoma' on March 28.

Study Type: Observational

Primary Sponsor: Institute - Tokyo Medical University

Condition: Condition - biliary tract carcinoma Classification by malignancy - Malignancy Genomic information - NO

Objective: Narrative objectives1 - Although biliary tract carcinoma is one of the malignancies with a very poor prognosis, recent advances in chemotherapy and radiotherapy have enabled conversion surgery to be performed in some patients with initially unresectable disease. However, the number of cases under...