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Revision as of 14:18, 25 August 2015

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Medical Therapy

There are different types of treatment for patients with gallbladder cancer.

Surgery
Radiation therapy
Chemotherapy
New types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
Radiation sensitizers

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 ==Medical Therapy==
-===General Management of Gallbladder Cancers===
+There are different types of treatment for patients with gallbladder cancer.
+*Surgery
-In patients whose superficial cancer (T1 or confined to the mucosa) is discovered on pathological examination of tissue after gallbladder removal for other reasons, the disease is often cured without further therapy. In patients who present with symptoms, the tumor is rarely diagnosed preoperatively.<ref>Chao TC, Greager JA: Primary carcinoma of the gallbladder. J Surg Oncol 46 (4): 215-21, 1991. </ref> In such cases, the tumor often cannot be removed completely by surgery and the patient cannot be cured, though palliative measures may be beneficial. For patients with T2 or greater disease, extended resection with partial hepatectomy and portal node dissection may be an option.<ref>Shoup M, Fong Y: Surgical indications and extent of resection in gallbladder cancer. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 11 (4): 985-94, 2002.</ref> <ref>Sasson AR, Hoffman JP, Ross E, et al.: Trimodality therapy for advanced gallbladder cancer. Am Surg 67 (3): 277-83; discussion 284, 2001.</ref>
+*Radiation therapy
+*Chemotherapy
-===External-beam radiation therapy (EBRT)===
+*New types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
+*:Radiation sensitizers
-The use of EBRT with or without chemotherapy as a primary treatment has been reported in small groups of patients to produce short-term control. Similar benefits have been reported for radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy administered following resection. <ref>Smoron GL: Radiation therapy of carcinoma of gallbladder and biliary tract. Cancer 40 (4): 1422-4, 1977.</ref> <ref>Hejna M, Pruckmayer M, Raderer M: The role of chemotherapy and radiation in the management of biliary cancer: a review of the literature. Eur J Cancer 34 (7): 977-86, 1998. </ref>
-===Contraindicated medications===
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Gallbladder cancer medical therapy: Difference between revisions

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