What tests are needed for bile duct cancer

Biliary duct cancer, many people may be familiar with it, and people around them may suffer from this disease, but some people will neglect to check their bodies and trust their bodies too much, which will lead to physical problems. So when we suspect that we have bile duct cancer, what tests do we need to do? Next, let us learn about it together.

From the current medical level, although there are many treatment methods for diseases such as cancer, it is still difficult to completely cure cancer. Clinically, bile duct cancer is also a type of malignant tumor, which has a lot to do with the fact that gallbladder stones have not been cured for a long time. So, if you suspect that you have bile duct cancer, what kind of examinations do you generally need to do?

1. Ask the patient's medical history in detail, conduct a comprehensive physical examination, and perform various routine tests and specific tests, such as alpha-fetoprotein and carcinoembryonic antigen.

2. Physical examination: Since about 75% of cancers occur in easily discovered parts of the body, a comprehensive physical examination, including inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, is very important. It can often find a considerable number of tumors and make a preliminary judgment on their nature.

3. Imaging examinations: including conventional X-ray fluoroscopy, filming, various angiography, various tomographic examinations; CT, ECT, MRI examinations; B-type ultrasound examinations, nuclear medicine examinations, etc.

4. Pathological examination: exfoliative cytology and biopsy.

5. Endoscopic examination: esophagoscopy, fiber gastroscopy and fiber colonoscopy, bronchoscope, cystoscope, etc.

6. Radioimmunoassay: such as fetoprotein assay, carcinoembryonic antigen assay, Epstein-Barr virus antibody assay, etc.

7. Medical laser diagnosis.

The above examination methods are common bile duct cancer examination methods. I hope they will be helpful to everyone. When you encounter bile duct cancer, stay calm, listen to the doctor's advice, actively cooperate, and save your life.