Bile Duct Cancer Symptoms And Treatment | Gallbladder Cancer

What is Bile Duct Cancer Disease?

Bile Duct Cancer Disease develops in the bile ducts,the bile ducts become progressively thinner and eventually become clogged.

Jaundice, often found in gallstones:

Duct Cancer Disease is overwhelmingly found in jaundice. Jaundice is often accompanied by fever. However, until jaundice appears, there is usually no such symptom.Gallbladder Cancer is also almost asymptomatic in the early days.

Bile Duct Cancer Symptoms are such as :

• Jaundice
• Weight loss
• Anorexia appear only after significant progression

In addition, Gallbladder Cancer is often accompanied by a gallstone, pain in the upper right abdomen, fever, nausea, vomiting.It is also rarely found in the symptoms of cholecystitis caused by gallstones.

Bile Duct Cancer and Gallbladder Cancer Treatment

Root treatment is resection of Gallbladder Cancer:

The method of surgery varies considerably depending on the degree of cancer progression. Early ones only need to take the gall bladder and surrounding lymph nodes and have a good prognosis. However, advanced disease requires major surgery to remove part of the duodenum, pancreas, and liver, and there are many cases of recurrence after surgery.

Bile duct Cancer Treatment

The method of surgery depends on where the cancer can occur. If the cancer is from the middle to the bottom, a pancreaticoduodenectomy is needed to remove the bile duct and part of the duodenum and pancreas. This is a rather large operation, but it can now be done safely.

On the other hand, if the cancer has spread to the upper cancer, especially to the bile duct in the liver (called hilar cholangiocarcinoma ), diagnosis is difficult and surgery is also difficult. Not easy. If extensive liver resection is required, percutaneous transhepatic portal vein embolization is used to fill the portal vein of the liver, which is to be removed two to three weeks before surgery, with a special drug. 

In this way, the liver that is to be resected is smaller, while the liver that is to be left larger is more secure for surgery.