Gallblader Cancer News

He was a real war hero. I'll call him John. And, he was one of the nicest people I ever met.

Dan Shake said his mother wanted to know she made a difference, and she wanted to make God happy.

A new study out of Massachusetts General Hospital finds survival rates for people with gallbladder cancer are improving, but also found the disease remains fatal in more than a third of all cases.

Overall prognosis for gallbladder cancer appears to be improving, although many patients still have incurable disease and poor survival rates Chicago, IL - infoZine - JAMA - An estimated 9,520 new cases of gallbladder or bile duct cancer were diagnosed in the United States in 2008, and approximately 3,340 of these patients will die of their ...

In 1978, Piehler and Crichlow reviewed the dismal outcomes of patients with gallbladder cancer, reporting a 5-year survival rate of just 4.1%, including those with incidentally discovered gallbladder cancer.1 More than 30 years later, Konstantinidis and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital offer some new insights for the few patients who ...

Patients with gallbladder cancer are surviving longer than they used to, but the death rate is still high, new research shows.

Objectives To determine the prevalence of incidentally found cases of gallbladder cancer, the incidence of residual disease at reexploration, and the changes in the mode of presentation, treatment, and survival of patients with gallbladder cancer during a period of more than 4 decades.

Overall prognosis for gallbladder cancer appears to be improving, although many patients still have incurable disease and poor survival rates, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Surgery .

Dr. Michael Picco has been with Mayo Clinic since 1999. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology.

Alpine resident Richard Loser and his family are facing his death with dignity, and a growing bucket list.

Grandma Niam, who gave Abhisit Vejjajiva a gold ring as a token of fellowship before he became prime minister, suffered from gallbladder cancer, doctors said.

Question: I just had a gallstone attack. The doctor who treated me thinks I should have my gallstones out.

There is no standard palliative chemotherapy regimen in biliary tract cancers . Fluoropyrimidine or gemcitabine, with or without platinum, are most frequently used.