Quimiorradioterapia de neoadyuvancia en cáncer de vesÍcula biliar

Twenty three gallbladder cancer patients were prospectively treated between June1993 and September 1999 in the Temuco Regional Hospital. Eighteen (82%) patients had subse-rosal infiltration, while three (13%) had serosal and two (9%) adipose tissue infiltration. Che-motherapy was done with 5-fluorouracil in continuous infusion during 5 days at day 1 and 28of treatment. Radiotherapy consisted in a total dose of 4500 cGy, divided in 25 sessions. Pa-tients’ survival was compared with a series of 19 patients not subjected to chemoradiation, for-merly treated at the institution.