Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

Fas ligand upregulation and apoptosis of bile duct epithelia have been demonstrated in human specimens, as well as T-lymphocyte and macrophage activation in portal tracts. An experimental model ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called neoadjuvant therapy. If you receive chemotherapy after surgery to destroy and cancer cells that may remain, it ...

The 47-year-old, in an Instagram video, said his cancer was discovered in the bile duct—between the pancreas and liver—and that he is a cancer survivor. Moss informed his fans that he ...

This test is also called a PTC. You may have a sample of tissue (biopsy) taken during a PTC. If your bile duct is blocked your doctor may put a drain or stent in so the bile can drain. Your doctor ...

Consultant medical oncologist Professor John Bridgewater is leading the UK arm of an international study to find treatments for bile duct cancer (Charlotte Southall/UCLH/PA) Doctors in the UK are ...