What to do with gallbladder cancer in the elderly

Gallbladder cancer can seriously harm our health, but if we do not treat it in time, it will metastasize. This will cause problems in other parts of our body, greatly increasing the difficulty of treatment and costing us a lot of money. Therefore, we should pay attention to gallbladder cancer.

The first choice is surgical removal of the gallbladder and local lymph nodes. If one lobe of the liver has been invaded, a partial hepatic lobectomy is required at the same time. If both lobes of the liver are involved and there is distant metastasis, only palliative surgery can be performed. If the bile duct is extensively invaded and obstruction occurs, internal and external bile duct drainage or stent placement is performed to relieve jaundice. Radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy can be performed after the tumor is removed or if it cannot be removed.
Warm reminder, by reading the above we have learned some of the metastatic pathways of gallbladder cancer and the factors that cause it. As can be seen from this, gallbladder cancer can also metastasize through lymph nodes, blood vessels and implants, so we should treat gallbladder cancer in a timely manner to avoid metastasis to other parts of our body and cause different hazards.