New treatment options for bile duct cancer The liver creates a digestive juice called bile and stores it in the gall bladder. While eating, the gall bladder forces the bile through a gall bladder tube called the bile duct. Bile duct cancer, or cholangiocarcinoma, is a unique type of cancer that affects the tube that joins the liver and the gall bladder to the small intestine.
Treatment options for bile duct cancer There are three standard treatment methods for bile duct cancer: surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Although the surgeon destroys all the identified cancer cells during the operation, a few patients are advised chemotherapy and radiation therapy after the surgery process to remove any remaining cancer cells in the tissues.
Chemotherapy In chemotherapy treatment, drugs are utilized to remove the cancer cells. In this treatment, anticancer drugs are taken by mouth or induced in the vein. The administering of drugs for cancer that has developed throughout the body is called systemic treatment.