First-line gemcitabine plus cisplatin chemotherapy is the standard first-line treatment for
unresectable or metastatic advanced biliary tract cancer and the optimal duration of the
treatment is not mentioned in current clinical guidelines. In the pivotal phase 3 ABC-02
trial, patients received up to 6 to 8 cycles of treatment and stopped without maintenance and
our retrospective study shows no significant benefit of continuing gemcitabine plus cisplatin
beyond 6 to 8 cycles. However, the survival outcomes of patients who completed 6 to 8 cycles
of gemcitabine plus cisplatin without progression are dismal with progression-free survival
from the last dose of the treatment of median 5.2 months in a prior retrospective study.
Indeed, there is an unmet clinical need in terms of maintenance therapy for advanced biliary
tract cancer without progression to first-line gemcitabine plus cisplatin chemotherapy.
Durvalumab with/without tremelimumab, anti-CTLA4 inhibitor, showed encouraging results in
recently presented study for treatment of advanced biliary tract cancer combination with
gemcitabine plus cisplatin. Combination of olaparib and durvalumab showed promising results
for metastatic HER-2 negative BRCA mutated breast cancer. For DDR gene mutated advanced
biliary tract cancer, olaparib plus durvalumab combination may show synergistic effect with
better efficacy than olaparib monotherapy. Both olaparib and durvalumab are relatively well
tolerated compared to other cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents. Olaparib may have some degree
of myelosuppression, most patients are expected to well tolerate. Although combination of
durvalumab and olaparib may cause additional adverse events, these also might be tolerable,
considering that there are no overlapping toxicities between durvalumab and olaparib and the
safety data for the combination of durvalumab with olaparib. Considering poor prognosis in
patients with advanced biliary tract cancer and lack of maintenance treatment following
scheduled first-line GemCis, clinical benefits with maintenance olaparib or olaparib plus
durvalumab weigh more than the potential risks.
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Biliary Tract Cancer, DNA Damage Repair Deficiency
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