[Treatment of unresectable cancer of the gallbladder and bile duct].
The gallbladder cancer carries a grim prognosis, because the disease is advanced and surgically incurable at the laparotomy. However, palliative resection and postoperative irradiation have possible effects on the prolongation of survival period. The bile duct cancer has better prognosis, because the early appearance of obstructive jaundice often leads to curative resection. In our series, however, the curative resection rate is only 48.3%. More aggressive surgical therapy might improve survival figures. In addition, postoperative radiation therapy has possible effect as an adjuvant therapy.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging