What is the effective way to relieve bile duct cancer

I believe many people have heard of bile duct cancer. Because bile duct cancer has become more common in recent years due to food safety issues and irregular eating habits, this digestive system tumor has become more and more common. Many people have also begun to pay attention to this disease. So, what is the effective way to relieve bile duct cancer?

Ways to relieve bile duct cancer

1. Surgery

The treatment principle of bile duct cancer is to mainly perform surgical resection in early cases, and to combine radiotherapy and chemotherapy after surgery 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 survival period 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 can relieve the symptoms caused by cholangiocarcinoma, improve the quality of life of patients, and may also prolong survival.