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 ...

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 ...

You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called neoadjuvant therapy. If you receive chemotherapy after surgery to destroy and cancer cells that may remain, it ...

Bile duct cancer, or cholangiocarcinoma, is a malignant tumour of either the bile ducts within the liver (intrahepatic), or those leading from the liver to the small intestine (extrahepatic).

Doctors in the UK are hoping to transform the lives of people with deadly bile duct cancer. A new study – which has shown promising early results – matches the patient’s tumour to one or ...

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 ...

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 ...