The latest treatment for bile duct cancer

With the rapid development of medicine, new breakthroughs have been found in the treatment of many diseases. However, there is a disease that people often talk about with fear, and that is cancer. Many people think that cancer is an incurable disease. In fact, as long as the patient cooperates with the treatment, there is still great hope for cancer patients to recover. Biliary duct cancer is also a type of cancer. Do you know the latest treatment methods for bile duct cancer?

The main treatments for bile duct cancer are:

1. Surgery

The treatment principle of bile duct cancer is: surgical resection is the main treatment for early cases, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy to consolidate and improve the effect of surgical treatment. For advanced cases that cannot be resected, biliary drainage surgery should be performed to control bile duct infection, improve liver function, reduce complications, prolong life, and improve quality of life.

2. Radiation therapy

Surgical resection is the only radical treatment for cholangiocarcinoma. Adjuvant radiotherapy can only improve the patient's survival rate. For unresectable and locally metastatic cholangiocarcinoma, radiotherapy can improve the patient's symptoms and prolong life after effective biliary drainage. However, cholangiocarcinoma has always been considered a tumor that is not sensitive to radiation. The median survival of radiotherapy is generally reported to be 9 to 12 months.

3. Chemotherapy

Cholangiocarcinoma is not sensitive to chemotherapy and is less sensitive to chemotherapy than other gastrointestinal tumors such as colon cancer. However, chemotherapy may relieve the symptoms caused by cholangiocarcinoma, improve the quality of life of patients, and may also prolong survival.

At the same time, patients should also adjust their own state, get rid of negative emotions such as pessimism, despair, and depression, live and treat with a calm, happy, and positive attitude, fight the cancer with the belief that they will win, not be impatient for success, and be prepared for a protracted battle and long-term treatment until the cancer is completely defeated.