Top advances of the year: Hepatobiliary cancers

Cancer. 2023 Apr 15;129(8):1149-1155. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34652. Epub 2023 Jan 24.

Abstract

This commentary reviews top advances in hepatobiliary cancer research in 2021-2022, focusing on leveraging immunotherapeutics in combination with other therapies earlier in the disease course and targeted to patient's individualized biomarkers that may predict response or resistance to checkpoint inhibitors.

Keywords: biliary tract cancer; biomarker studies; checkpoint inhibitors; cholangiocarcinoma; correlative studies; hepatocellular carcinoma; immunotherapy; liver cancer; neoadjuvant therapy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

  • Biliary Tract Neoplasms* / therapy
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular* / therapy
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy
  • Liver Neoplasms* / therapy