Biliary tract cancer (BTC), a rare malignancy that grows within the bile ducts and gallbladder, grows very aggressively. The fast progression associated with BTC makes it challenging to treat and ...

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 ...

Consultant medical oncologist Professor John Bridgewater is leading the UK arm of an international study to find treatments for bile duct cancer (Charlotte Southall/UCLH/PA) Doctors in the UK are ...

The American Cancer Society’s estimates for cancer of the gallbladder and nearby large bile ducts in the United States for 2025 are: About 12,610 new cases diagnosed: 6,040 in men and 6,570 in women ...

Your gallbladder is a small organ attached to your liver. Its primary function is to store bile, a type of digestive fluid. During digestion, the gallbladder releases bile into the small intestine to ...

Each presented as a papillary frondlike projection into the lumen of the lower end of the biliary tree. In Case 16 this growth extended submucosally up the bile duct through the margin of ...

Biliary colic (also known as a "gallbladder attack") is abdominal pain that develops due to a blockage in the bile ducts. Bile ducts carry bile (digestive fluid) from your liver to your ...

A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-o-gram) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. This test is also called a PTC. You may have a ...

Iatrogenic bile duct injury is a highly significant complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, with an incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.5% (de’Angelis et al., 2021). This can result in the ...