The impact of peritoneal lavage cytology in biliary tract cancer (KHBO1701): Kansai Hepato-Biliary Oncology Group.
Satoshi MatsukumaHiroaki NaganoShogo KobayashiHiroshi WadaSatoru SeoDaisuke TsugawaHiroyuki OkuyamaKenjiro IidaYoshiaki OhmuraYutaka TakedaAtsushi MiyamotoShinsuke NakashimaTerumasa YamadaTetsuo AjikiAkihito TsujiKenichi YoshimuraHidetoshi EguchiEtsuro HatanoTatsuya Iokanull nullPublished in: Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) (2020)
The positive status of peritoneal lavage cytology could moderately affect the survival of patients with biliary tract cancers. Given that surgical resection is the only curative treatment option, it may be acceptable to resect biliary tract cancers without other non-curative factors, regardless of peritoneal lavage cytology status.