This randomized phase III trial is studying giving gemcitabine hydrochloride together with oxaliplatin to see how well it works compared with observation in treating patients with biliary tract cancer that has been removed by surgery.
PRODIGE 12-ACCORD 18 (UNICANCER GI) phase III trial
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01313377
Conclusions: Adjuvant chemotherapy in BTC with GEMOX was feasible and associated with expected toxicities and no deterioration of HrQoL. There was no significant difference in RFS between GEMOX and surveillance.
RFS (relapse free survival) or DFS (disease free survival) measures the length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends that the patient survives without any signs or symptoms of that cancer.