Combined photodynamic therapy with systemic chemotherapy for unresectable cholangiocarcinoma

Chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin is the current standard for patients with unresectable cholangiocarcinoma. Local photodynamic therapy has also demonstrated benefit in patients with extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.To evaluate the benefit of photodynamic therapy in combination with systemic chemotherapy in advanced extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.Three hundred and fifty-three patients diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma between 2004 and...