Simple blood test could guide surgery for tough liver cancer

NCT ID NCT06381648

Summary

This study tested a new blood test to see if it could accurately detect whether a type of liver cancer called intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) had spread to nearby lymph nodes before a patient's surgery. The goal was to help doctors decide the best surgical plan, such as whether to remove lymph nodes, without relying solely on less accurate imaging scans. Researchers analyzed blood samples from 230 patients to see if specific markers in the blood could predict cancer spread.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • City of Hope Medical Center

    Duarte, California, 91016, United States

  • Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University

    Hokkaido, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan

  • Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University

    Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

  • Department of Surgery, Tokushima University

    Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan

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