Gallbladder Cancer in the 21st Century

Table 6

Efficacy of gemcitabine combination therapy in patients with advanced gallbladder and biliary tract cancer.

Regimens	Number of patients	Response rate (%)	Median overall survival (months)
Gemcitabine and cisplatin
Meyerhardt et al. [128]	33	21	9.7
Thongprasert et al. [129]	40	26	8.4
Lee et al. [130]	24	21	9.3
Kim et al. [131]	29	35	11
Gemcitabine and oxaliplatin
Harder et al. [132]	31	26	11
André et al. [133]	33; 23	36; 22	15.4; 7.6
Gebbia et al. [134]	24	50	14
Gemcitabine an capecitabine
Knox et al. [118]	45	31	14
Cho et al. [117]	44	32	14
Riechelmann et al. [135]	75	29	12.7
Iyer et al. [136]	12	17	14

Patients with good performance status; patients with poor performance status. Modified from [2].