Table 2.
Demographics, clinical and pathological characteristics of biliary tract cancer patients
| Total number of BTC patients |
39 |
| Males |
24 |
| Females |
15 |
| Cholangiocarcinoma |
37 |
| Gallbladder carcinoma |
2 |
| Positive cytology |
17 |
| Positive histology: |
22 |
| Poorly-differentiated |
11 |
| Moderately-differentiated |
10 |
| Well-differentiated |
1 |
| Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma |
2 |
| Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: |
35 |
| Hilar |
31 |
| Distal bile duct |
4 |
| Stage: |
|
| T1 or T2 |
18 |
| T3 or T4 |
21 |
| Deaths |
33/39 (85%) |
| Median survival and range (months) | 8.4 (1.4-43.9) |