Circulating levels of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor predict outcome after resection of biliary tract cancer

Background & Aims: Surgical resection is the only potentially curative therapy for patients with biliary tract cancer (BTC), but 5-year survival rates after tumor resection have remained below 30%, corroborating the need for better stratification tools to identify the ideal surgical candidates....

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Main Authors: Sven H. Loosen, Annemarie Breuer, Frank Tacke, Jakob N. Kather, Joao Gorgulho, Patrick H. Alizai, Jan Bednarsch, Anjali A. Roeth, Georg Lurje, Sophia M. Schmitz, Jonathan F. Brozat, Pia Paffenholz, Mihael Vucur, Thomas Ritz, Alexander Koch, Christian Trautwein, Tom F. Ulmer, Christoph Roderburg, Thomas Longerich, Ulf P. Neumann, Tom Luedde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:JHEP Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589555920300148