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. 2014;15(15):6025-7.
doi: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.15.6025.

Survival analysis of biliary tract cancer cases in Turkey

Zeki Akca  1 , Hasan Mutlu, Abdulsamet Erden, Abdullah Buyukcelik, Yasemin Benderli Cihan, Sema Sezgin Goksu, Tuncay Aslan, Emel Yaman Sezer, Ali Inal
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Survival analysis of biliary tract cancer cases in Turkey

Zeki Akca et al. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2014.
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Abstract

Background: Because of the relative rarity of biliary tract cancers (BTCs), defining long term survival results is difficult. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the survival of a series of cases in Turkey.

Materials and methods: A totally of 47 patients with billiary tract cancer from Mersin Goverment Hospital, Acibadem Kayseri Hospital and Kayseri Training and Research Hospital were analyzed retrospectively using hospital records between 2006-2012.

Results: The median overall survival was 19.3±3.9 months for all patients. The median disease free and overall survivals were 24.3±5.3 and 44.1±12.9 months in patients in which radical surgery was performed , but in those with with inoperable disease they were only 5.3±1.5 and 10.7±3.2 months, respectively.

Conclusions: BTCs have a poor prognosis. Surgery with a microscopic negative margin is still the only curative treatment.

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