How to treat patients with bile duct cancer

How to treat patients with bile duct cancer? Biliary duct cancer is a cancerous disease of the bile duct. This cancer, like other cancers, can cause life-threatening damage to patients. Therefore, timely and effective treatment of such a disease can reduce the occurrence of harm. So how to treat patients with bile duct cancer?

The main treatment methods are as follows:

1. Treatment to relieve symptoms and reduce pressure. Patients who are evaluated preoperatively as having bile duct cancer that cannot be surgically removed need bile duct decompression. Traditional palliative bile duct decompression is percutaneous bile duct decompression for proximal bile duct cancer and endoscopic bile duct decompression for distal bile duct cancer. With the development of bile duct decompression technology, no matter where the obstruction is, any of the above methods can be used to dredge and drain the bile duct and prolong the patient's survival. In addition, patients who allow the conditions can also choose biliary stents combined with close-range irradiation, which has a better prognosis;

2. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy. There is no internationally standardized treatment plan for cholangiocarcinoma. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have certain benefits for the patient's survival. If radiotherapy and chemotherapy are to be considered, an accurate assessment of the patient's own condition should be conducted;

3. Targeted therapy. Common targeted therapy drugs for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma include erlotinib, sorafenib, bevacizumab, etc.;

4. Photodynamic therapy. Photodynamic therapy for cholangiocarcinoma is a hot research area and has certain development prospects.