Personalized Medicine for Advanced Biliary Cancer Patients

Progression-free survival (PFS)

Time from randomisation to the first documented progression of disease (PD) as assessed by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1, or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

Overall Survival (OS)

The overall survival is the length of time from randomization that patients enrolled in the study are still alive.

Objective response rate

Objective response rate is defined as the proportion of patients achieving complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) (according to RECIST v1.1). Objective response rate will be presented as the best response achieved compared to the disease assessment performed at randomisation.

Time to treatment failure

Time from patient starting their allocated treatment to the date at which a patient first experiences a treatment failure event. The following will be considered as treatment failure events: early treatment discontinuation (regardless of reason), disease progression, death, starting a new treatment after completing scheduled treatment, withdrawal from the study due to any reason or loss to follow-up.

Progression-free survival after next line of treatment (PFS2)

Time from randomisation to the date of second disease progression or death, whichever occurs first.

Feasibility of molecular screening

The proportion of patients with an available MTB proposition at the time of the 3-month standard of care treatment evaluation.

Quality of life questionnaire - Core 30 (QLQ-C30)

Developed by the EORTC, this self-reported questionnaire assesses the health-related quality of life of cancer patients in clinical trials. The questionnaire includes five functional scales (physical, everyday activity, cognitive, emotional, and social), three symptom scales (fatigue, pain, nausea and vomiting), a health/quality of life overall scale, and a number of additional elements assessing common symptoms (including dyspnea, loss of appetite, insomnia, constipation, and diarrhea), as well as, the perceived financial impact of the disease. All of the scales and single-item measures range in score from 0 to 100. A high scale score represents a higher response level.

Quality of life Questionnaire - Biliary tract cancer module (QLQ-BIL21)

This EORTC cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer specific questionnaire is intended to supplement the QLQ-C30. The QLQ-BIL21 contains 21 items to assess symptoms. All items are rated on a four-point Likert-type scale (1 = "not at all", 2 = "a little", 3 = "quite a bit", and 4 = "very much"), and are linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale.

EuroQOL EQ-5D-5L questionnaire

Developed by the EuroQol group, the self-reported questionnaire assesses the health-related quality of life of cancer patients in clinical trials consists of a descriptive system and a visual analogue scale (VAS). The EQ-5D-5L descriptive system comprises five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression), each dimension has 5 levels (1 = "no problems", 2 = "slight problems", 3 = "moderate problems", 4 = "severe problems", and 5 = "extreme problems"). This questionnaire provide a 5-digit score which generate a health state profile. The VAS records the patient's self-rated health on a vertical visual analogue scale where the score range from 0 (The best health you can imagine) to 100 (The worst health you can imagine). The VAS is used as a quantitative measure of health outcome that reflects the patient's own judgement.