Clinical

Clinical trials offer patients the opportunity to become involved in treatments that may well become tomorrow’s standard of care. 

New tests and treatments aren’t offered to the public as soon as they’re made. They need to be studied. Clinical trials study how safe and helpful tests and treatments are. When found to be safe and helpful, they may become tomorrow’s standard of care. Clinical trials can study many things, such as:

• New drugs not yet approved by the Australia Government or U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
• New uses of drugs already approved by the Australia Government or FDA
• New ways to give drugs, such as in pill form
• Use of alternative medicines, such as herbs and vitamins
• New tests to find and track disease
• Drugs or procedures that relieve symptoms

If your company/institution would like to submit a clinical trial to be included on our website, please contact steve@CholangiocarcinomaAustralia.org for more information.

If you would like to post your clinical trial on our clinical trial page and to be shared on social media. Please make sure to use patient-friendly language. Contact steve@CholangiocarcinomaAustralia.org for more information.

It is not the intention of the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation to provide specific medical advice.  We provide website users with information to help them better understand their health conditions and the current approaches related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and supportive care. You are urged to always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare provider.

Please note that the clinical trials mentioned are not the only clinical trials available for cholangiocarcinoma patients, the following clinical trials were submitted by the organizations conducting the trial.  Please visit Australian Cancer Trials or for a global reference visit clinicaltrials.gov for a more comprehensive list.

If your company/institution would like to submit a clinical trial to be included on our website, please contact steve@CholangiocarcinomaAustralia.org for more information.

If you would like to post your clinical trial on our clinical trial page and to be shared on social media. Please make sure to use patient-friendly language. Contact steve@CholangiocarcinomaAustralia.org for more information.

Australian Search

Australian Cancer Trials; australiancancertrials.gov.au/

• Search Cholangiocarcinoma
• Search Biliary tree 
• Search Solid Tumor

USA Search 

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

• Search Cholangiocarcinoma
• Search Bile Duct Cancer 
• Search Solid Tumor

CCF Search

• Search a trial by Mutation Type 

It is not the intention of the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation to provide specific medical advice.  We provide website users with information to help them better understand their health conditions and the current approaches related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and supportive care. You are urged to always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare provider.

Please note that the clinical trials mentioned are not the only clinical trials available for cholangiocarcinoma patients, the following clinical trials were submitted by the organizations conducting the trial.  Please visit Australian Cancer Trials or for a global reference visit clinicaltrials.gov for a more comprehensive list.

Many new tests and treatments are constantly in development, but many are not yet available to the public or not offered as a “First-line” treatment option. These new tests and treatments are often offered to patients within a strictly controlled clinical trial study.

Clinical trials offer patients the opportunity to become involved in treatments that may well become tomorrow’s standard of care. It is important that your Oncologists are conversant/aware of current trial options.

For Cholangiocarcinoma patients in Australia, there are limited Clinical Trial options, but that should not dissuade you from researching all possibilities.

Clinical trials will require that you have the biomarkers that align to specific trial requirements hence the importance of obtaining a biopsy (tissue sample of the tumour) and having it tested, in the first instance a simple IHC test (3-5days) and inexpensive and thereafter a full molecular (Genomic) profile.

For Cholangiocarcinoma patients it would be a significant mistake to assume that your surgeon or Oncologist will automatically engage an IHC (Staining test) on your behalf. You will need to ensure or ask that this be completed, in particular, have them highlight PD-L1, MSi Results – HER2 should also be included.