As much as you know any cancer is dangerous. The fact that she was diagnosed with bile duct cancer means that in some cases the whole liver needs to be removed in order to cure the cancer. It also depends on the stage of cancer and on the severity of the cancer as well. I think ...
Figure 16.Primary sclerosing cholangitis at an advanced stage a: on the magnetic resonance cholangiography image in MIP volume rendering mode, there are multiple tight stenoses of the common bile duct, right and left hepatic ducts and intrahepatic bile ducts, plus dilatations of the intrahepatic bi...
Liver and Bile Duct Cancer Ghassan K.Abou-Alfa, ...Eileen M.O'Reilly, inAbeloff's Clinical Oncology (Fifth Edition), 2014 Bile Duct Carcinoma One of the most technically difficult surgical resections is in patients withbile ducttumors arising in the hepatic hilus, namedKlatskin tumors, orhila...
Gemcitabine, oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) are active in biliary tract cancer and have a potentially synergistic mode of action and non-overlapping toxicity. The objective of these trials was to determine response, survival and toxicity separately in patients with bile duct cancer (BDC) an...