ASCO Highlights

Immunotherapies have shown early promising efficacy in some patients with biliary tract cancer. Investigators evaluated the benefit of durvalumab (Imfinzi), a PD-L1 inhibitor, with or without tremelimumab, a CTLA-4 inhibitor, plus chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin as a first-line treatment for Korean patients with biliary tract cancer. The researchers also performed an extensive biomarker analysis.

Several hot topics were presented at the recent ASCO 2020 annual meeting about cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), which I would briefly discuss here. First, it was very exciting to see 3 important studies regarding immunotherapy for CCA, which may represent a step forward in the development of CCA therapies.