What are the hazards of bile duct cancer

Due to various reasons, in modern society, cancer has entered the lives of many people like an uninvited guest, which has forced us to pay more attention to cancer. Biliary duct cancer is a type of cancer. Do you know the harm caused by bile duct cancer? Let's take a closer look at this issue.

The occurrence of bile duct cancer is very harmful to people's health. In the most serious cases, it will metastasize and cause cancers in various parts of the body, eventually endangering life. Let's take a look at the dangers of the symptoms.

1. Right upper abdominal pain: This symptom accounts for 84%. Since gallbladder cancer often coexists with gallbladder stones and inflammation, the nature of the pain is similar to that of calculous cholecystitis. It starts with discomfort in the right upper abdomen, followed by persistent dull pain or dull pain, sometimes accompanied by paroxysmal severe pain and radiating to the right shoulder.

2. Digestive tract symptoms: The vast majority (90%) experience indigestion, aversion to greasy food, belching, and decreased appetite. This is due to the gallbladder's inability to digest fat.

3. Jaundice: Jaundice often occurs in the late stage of the disease, accounting for 36.5%, mostly due to cancer tissue invading the bile duct, causing malignant obstruction. It is accompanied by weight loss, fatigue, and even cachexia, yellowing of the skin and mucous membranes, and difficult-to-treat skin itching.

4. Fever: 25.9% of patients developed fever.

5. Right upper abdominal mass: When the disease develops to the late stage, a mass appears in the right upper abdomen or upper abdomen, accounting for 54.5%. One is that the tumor grows rapidly, blocking the bile duct and causing the gallbladder to swell; the other is that it invades the duodenum and causes obstruction symptoms; in addition, if it invades the liver, stomach, pancreas, etc., masses may also appear in the corresponding parts.

Biliary duct cancer usually does not grow fast. If there is pain, it often means that it is already quite serious and has spread to the terminal stage. This is also the reason why it is difficult to diagnose bile duct cancer in the early stage. Also, if bile duct cancer occurs above the bile duct, the symptoms are milder and more obscure. Although symptoms such as jaundice appear earlier in the portal type and extrahepatic bile duct type, this does not mean that the prognosis will be better.