What foods are good for patients with bile duct cancer?

Cholangiocarcinoma is a relatively serious disease. Faced with a sudden illness, we are at a loss, and even after treatment we don’t understand what happened to us. This is why people around us must take good care of the patients and love them well. So what should patients with bile duct cancer eat? Let’s find out what foods are good for patients with bile duct cancer.

Cholangiocarcinoma refers to a malignant tumor of the extrahepatic bile duct that originates from the confluence of the left and right hepatic ducts to the lower end of the common bile duct. Cholangiocarcinoma can be divided into three types: hilar cholangiocarcinoma or upper cholangiocarcinoma, middle cholangiocarcinoma, and lower cholangiocarcinoma. Cholangiocarcinoma can occur in various parts of the extrahepatic bile duct, among which the proximal hilar cholangiocarcinoma is the most common.

Drinking a glass of milk every night or eating a fried egg for breakfast can make the gallbladder contract and empty regularly, and reduce the time bile stays in the gallbladder. The appropriate diet for bile duct cancer is as follows:

Foods suitable for bile duct cancer diet

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-biliary and bile duct cancer effects: shark fin, chicken gizzard, buckwheat, coix seed, tofu dregs, and Hericium erinaceus.

(2) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-infection and anti-cancer effects: buckwheat, mung beans, rapeseed, toon, taro, scallion, bitter melon, lily, water spinach, ground ear, carp, water snake, shrimp, loach, jellyfish, yellow catfish, and needle fish.

(3) It is advisable to eat foods that have a choleretic and laxative effect: water spinach, burdock root, figs, walnuts, sesame seeds, day lily, and sea cucumber.

(4) People with poor appetite should eat bayberry, yam, coix seed, radish, catfish, and broccoli.

(5) For abdominal pain and jaundice, please refer to the relevant content on liver cancer.

Treatment is 30% of the disease, and care is 70%. Diet is the most critical in the care process. In the treatment of bile duct cancer, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine are the main treatment methods. Diet for bile duct cancer is also very helpful for the condition. The diet and life of bile duct cancer patients should be regular, and attention should be paid to the combination of work and rest. It is also very important preventive measures to regularly participate in physical activities, eat breakfast on time, avoid weight gain, and reduce the number of pregnancies. At the same time, pay attention to taboo foods and a reasonable diet.