How to prolong life in late stage of bile duct cancer

How can you prolong your life in the late stage of bile duct cancer? Biliary duct cancer is a digestive system cancer with a high incidence and mortality rate. Because the disease progresses very quickly, most patients only find out that they have bile duct cancer in the middle and late stages. So how can you prolong your life in the late stage of bile duct cancer?

It is impossible to predict how long patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma can live. Even highly malignant cholangiocarcinoma cannot be easily equated with death. Instead of worrying about "how long to live", it is better to actively face the advanced stage of cholangiocarcinoma in clinical practice and how to improve the quality of life and prolong the life cycle.

Choosing the right treatment is the key to prolonging the life of patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma:

Surgical resection: Palliative local resection is still recommended for patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma who can tolerate surgery. Currently, surgery is one of the three fastest and most commonly used methods to fight cancer.

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy: Radiotherapy and chemotherapy before surgery can shrink the tumor to a certain extent and increase the success rate of resection; radiotherapy and chemotherapy after surgery can inhibit residual cancer; for patients who cannot tolerate surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a more direct killing effect on cancer cells and are more effective in improving symptoms. However, the disadvantage of radiotherapy and chemotherapy is that they will have certain side effects on patients.

Treatment with Chinese medicine: Chinese medicine has gradually become an indispensable method for the treatment of advanced bile duct cancer, which can reduce the side effects and complications of postoperative patients in advanced stages; long-term use after surgery and chemotherapy can stabilize the condition, improve long-term effects, and reduce the possibility of recurrence and metastasis; for patients with advanced bile duct cancer who cannot undergo surgery and chemotherapy, it can improve symptoms, improve the quality of life, and achieve the purpose of prolonging the life cycle. Currently, the Chinese medicine method that has gained a good reputation in clinical practice is the triple balance therapy.