The lab of Dr. Mark Magnuson, Louise B. McGavock Professor and professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at Vanderbilt ...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

Chemotherapy is a drug or a combination of drugs that kills cancer cells wherever they are in the body. You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called ...

High levels may indicate a blockage in the gallbladder or bile ducts. Indirect bilirubin – Unprocessed bilirubin. High levels may suggest rapid red blood cell breakdown. Ultrasound: A painless ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

Bile duct cancer, also called cholangiocarcinoma, is a type of cancer that starts in the bile ducts, small tubes that connect the liver and gallbladder to the small bowel. They carry a fluid ...

This trial is looking at targeted drugs for bile duct cancer and gallbladder cancer that has spread ... sample to detect small pieces of DNA released into the blood by cancer cells. Read more about A ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...