What are the causes of bile duct cancer

What are the causes of bile duct cancer? Many bile duct cancer patients feel that there is no cure for cancer, but they don’t know why they suffer from bile duct cancer despite having good living habits. It is very troublesome, so today we will discuss the causes of bile duct cancer.

The cause of bile duct cancer is internal injury due to worry and excessive anger, which damages the liver and gallbladder, causing the liver and gallbladder to fail to function properly, causing gallbladder qi to stagnate and liver blood to stagnate, which will eventually form cancer over time.

Being fond of fat and alcohol, having a preference for fatty and greasy food, and drinking excessively frequently, fat can stagnate yang and generate heat, while alcohol can damage yin and turn into heat. Heat evil can accumulate and become toxic, and heat toxicity can attack the gallbladder. The gallbladder toxicity can accumulate and not dissipate, thus causing cancer.

The cause of bile duct cancer is the invasion of dampness and heat from the outside, which invades the gallbladder internally, causing the liver and gallbladder to fail to discharge properly, resulting in stagnation of gallbladder qi and inability of bile to discharge downward, so that the dampness and heat cannot be eliminated, thus accumulating into poison and eventually causing cancer.

Liver fluke (Clorchis sinensis) infection: Clonorchis sinensis infection is also believed to be related to the occurrence of cholangiocarcinoma. Although Clonorchis sinensis mostly parasitizes the intrahepatic bile duct, it can also parasitize the extrahepatic bile duct. The worm itself and its metabolic products cause long-term stimulation to the bile duct mucosal epithelium, causing hyperplasia of the bile duct mucosa, tumor-like changes, and cancer.

Biliary duct cystic malformation (congenital biliary dilatation): It has become a consensus that congenital bile duct cysts are prone to cancer. The incidence of bile duct cancer in patients with congenital bile duct cysts is as high as 2.5% to 28%. Patients with bile duct cystic malformations develop cancer 20 to 30 years earlier than normal people.

Chronic inflammation and infection of the bile duct: Long-term chronic inflammation is the basis for the occurrence of bile duct cancer, because clinically found that diseases related to bile duct cancer can lead to chronic inflammation of the bile duct. Certain substances in the bile (such as metabolites of bile acid) stimulate the bile duct mucosa for a long time, leading to atypical hyperplasia of the epithelium.

Prevention of bile duct cancer:

1. Maintain a happy mental state, develop good eating habits, avoid spicy food, eat less greasy food, and do not drink strong alcohol.

2. For people over 40 years old, especially women, regular B-ultrasound examinations should be performed. If cholecystitis, gallstones or polyps are found, follow-up examinations should be conducted and treatment should be initiated as soon as possible if any changes are found in the condition.

3. Before actively treating cancerous lesions, the factors that may cause cancer should be eliminated sooner or later.