The purpose of this study is to determine whether everolimus is effective in the treatment of patients with advance cholangiocarcinoma.
Cholangiocarcinoma is one of the most common cause of cancer death in Thailand. Patients with cholangiocarcinoma are often diagnosed at advanced stage. Palliative therapeutic approaches consisting of percutaneous and endoscopic biliary drainage have usually been used for these patients, since there is no effective chemotherapeutic treatment for this type of cancer. Activation of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway is frequently found in cholangiocarcinoma cells. It has been suggested to be a key step leading to the progression of cholangiocarcinoma. In this study, the investigators hypothesize that inhibition of mTOR may be useful in treating cholangiocarcinoma.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
10 mg everolimus
progression free survival in cholangiocarcinoma patients whom treated with everolimus
Time frame: One year
overall survival rate
Overall survival is defined as the time from dater of start of treatment to date of death due to any cause.
Time frame: Two years
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