What are the chemotherapy methods for gallbladder cancer

If gallbladder cancer is not treated in time, the consequences can be quite serious and pose a great threat to the patient's health. Therefore, patients must take effective treatment measures. Active treatment under the correct guidance of a doctor will help improve the condition. Next, the editor will summarize for everyone the treatment methods of gallbladder cancer, hoping to bring certain benefits to patients.

Among malignant tumors of the gallbladder, gallbladder cancer ranks first, and others include sarcoma, carcinoid, primary malignant melanoma, giant cell adenocarcinoma, etc. Primary gallbladder cancer is relatively rare clinically, accounting for only about 1% of all cancers according to domestic reports.

What are the treatments for gallbladder cancer?

1. Surgical treatment: Surgical resection of hilar cholangiocarcinoma, laparoscopic surgery of hilar cholangiocarcinoma, and resection of middle and lower cholangiocarcinoma can be used.

2. Chemotherapy: During the operation, a catheter is inserted into the hepatic artery through the gastroepiploic artery, and a drug pump is placed subcutaneously. Drugs are then administered through the drug pump. Commonly used chemotherapy drugs are 5-Fu and MMC.

3. Radiotherapy: Intraoperative radiotherapy, postoperative targeted radiotherapy and staged internal irradiation, etc. Radical radiotherapy dose irradiation has a certain effect on advanced cholangiocarcinoma. It can cause cancer cells to degenerate and necrotize and inhibit their growth, and can prolong the survival of patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma.

Gallbladder cancer chemotherapy care is described in detail as follows:

Although chemotherapy is an important means of treating gallbladder cancer, it has significant side effects during treatment. In addition to using appropriate traditional Chinese medicine to alleviate the side effects of gallbladder cancer chemotherapy, family members also need to understand the nursing knowledge of gallbladder cancer patients' chemotherapy. So how should we professionally neglect the nursing of gallbladder cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy? When applying chemotherapy drugs, nurses must understand the characteristics, types, routes of administration, side effects and preventive measures of the drugs in order to provide good care for chemotherapy patients.

1. Oral medication

It needs to be encapsulated or made into enteric-coated preparations to avoid irritation to the gastric mucosa and prevent the drug from being destroyed by the stomach.

2. Intramuscular injection

In order to avoid damage to blood vessels and some drugs that are not suitable for oral administration, intramuscular injection is often used, long needles are selected for deep injection, and the injection site is changed frequently to avoid nodules.

That’s all I have to say about the treatment methods of gallbladder cancer and the care precautions during chemotherapy. I hope it can be of some help to patients, especially for gallbladder cancer patients. Early treatment can effectively cure the disease. If you delay, you will miss the best time for treatment, which will affect the effect of treatment and be detrimental to the patient’s recovery.