What should you eat for gallbladder cancer

Gallbladder cancer has no specific and typical symptoms in the early stage, making it difficult to diagnose and poorly treated. The main symptoms of advanced gallbladder cancer are right upper abdominal pain, jaundice, a hard mass in the right upper abdomen, and weight loss. The presence of jaundice indicates that there has been lymph node metastasis and obstruction of the extrahepatic bile duct, and the tumor cannot be surgically removed; jaundice may also occur if combined with stone obstruction. Gallbladder cancer directly spreads to the stomach and duodenum, which can cause gastric pyloric obstruction.

Gallbladder cancer metastasizes early and widely, with liver metastasis being the most common. Cholangiocarcinoma refers to cancer originating in the extrahepatic bile duct, excluding intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder cancer, and ampullary cancer. It is further divided into upper bile duct cancer, middle bile duct cancer, and lower bile duct cancer. The main manifestations include rapidly progressive obstructive jaundice, weight loss, gallbladder enlargement, liver enlargement, and gastrointestinal symptoms; loss of appetite, indigestion, fear of greasy food, etc. Abdominal pain and symptoms of acute cholangitis are rare, and clinically difficult to differentiate from pancreatic head cancer or periampullary cancer. Obvious weight loss, fatigue, and cachexia may be seen in the late stages.

【should】

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-biliary and bile duct cancer effects: shark fin, chicken gizzard, buckwheat, coix seed, tofu dregs, and Hericium erinaceus.

(2) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-infection and anti-cancer effects: buckwheat, mung beans, rapeseed, toon, taro, scallion, bitter melon, lily, water spinach, ground ear, carp, water snake, shrimp, loach, jellyfish, yellow catfish, and needle fish.

(3) It is advisable to eat foods that have a choleretic and laxative effect: water spinach, burdock root, figs, walnuts, sesame seeds, day lily, and sea cucumber.

(4) People with poor appetite should eat bayberry, yam, coix seed, radish, catfish, and broccoli.

【avoid】

(1) Avoid animal fat and greasy food.

(2) Avoid overeating or overeating.

(3) Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food.

(4) Avoid moldy, fried, smoked, or pickled foods.

(5) Avoid hard, sticky and indigestible foods.