Cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bile duct cancer, is a cancer that forms in the bile ducts. Its symptoms can include abdominal pain, yellowish skin, weight loss, generalized itching, fever, light colored stool, and dark urine. Other cancers of the biliary tract include gallbladder cancer and cancer of the ampulla of Vater.
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1. Cholangiocarcinoma (Wikipedia)
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Symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma may include abdominal pain, yellowish skin, weight loss, generalized itching, and fever.
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Cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bile duct cancer, is a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts.
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Light colored stool or dark urine may also occur.
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Risk factors for cholangiocarcinoma include primary sclerosing cholangitis (an inflammatory disease of the bile ducts), ulcerative colitis, cirrhosis, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, infection with certain liver flukes, and some congenital liver malformations.
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3. World Health Organization: Noncommunicable diseases (fact sheet)
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The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes.
Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (Wikipedia)
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Other treated malignancies include neuroendocrine tumors, ocular melanoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and sarcoma.
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