Patients with gallbladder cancer have jaundice, how should they be treated?

Gallbladder cancer is a malignant tumor. Patients with gallbladder cancer have no specific symptoms in the early stage. Most patients have gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, loss of appetite and indigestion. Similar to chronic cholecystitis, it often leads to misdiagnosis and mistreatment in treatment.

With the development of gallbladder cancer, the condition will become more and more serious. Once cancer cells get sick, they may spread to the whole body, and patients will have systemic pain symptoms, and gradually appear jaundice, emaciation and edema. Once the patient has these symptoms, it means that the disease has become malignant and may have developed to the advanced stage.

The most common complication of gallbladder cancer is jaundice caused by intestinal obstruction. The reason is that with the development of the disease, gallbladder cancer will invade the bile duct, and the bile duct will become narrower and blocked, resulting in bile not being discharged, thus blocking the expansion of the bile duct and causing a large amount of bile to return to the blood, causing jaundice.

Patients with gallbladder cancer have jaundice, how should they be treated? First, patients with gallbladder cancer have jaundice. One of the most commonly used treatment methods is to insert a tube into the bile duct through percutaneous transhepatic puncture to suck out the whole bile and suck out the bile, and the jaundice symptoms will get better.

Secondly, gallbladder cancer can also put a guide wire in the narrow part of bile duct, put the narrow part of bile duct into a stent, and open this narrow part to drain bile to the gastrointestinal tract, which is beneficial to the maintenance of liver function and will not affect the patient's diet.

Third, if the bile duct is completely blocked, the bile in the bile duct can only be drained externally. Therefore, patients with gallbladder cancer complicated with jaundice should be actively treated, otherwise it will have a serious impact on patients.

Jaundice in patients with gallbladder cancer does not mean losing the chance of surgery. Most patients can also reduce the risk of operation by doing some special treatment for jaundice before operation. Gallbladder cancer has no symptoms in the early stage and is often ignored in the early stage. Once gallbladder cancer develops to the advanced stage, it is more difficult to treat, and even the opportunity for treatment has been lost. In order to alleviate the pain and prolong the life of patients, the therapeutic effect can only be enhanced to a certain extent.