Bile ducts are pathways that carry hepatocyte-produced bile from the liver to the small intestine. In the human fetal liver, bile ducts are formed from bile duct epithelial cells surrounding the ...

Chemotherapy is a drug or a combination of drugs that kills cancer cells wherever they are in the body. You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called ...

An investor webcast will be held on Dec. 11 at 4:30 p.m. EST to discuss further details, according to a news release. Biliary tract cancer affects bile ducts within the gallbladder, liver and small ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...

Tucatinib and trastuzumab work by blocking a protein known as human epidermal growth factor ... including that of the bile ducts. Bile duct cancer, also known as cholangiocarcinoma, affects ...

For those whose cancer has not spread beyond the bile ducts, the five-year survival rate ... tumours linked to a protein in the body called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, or HER2.

This is an image of a mouse gallbladder following repair with a bioengineered patch of tissue incorporating human 'bile duct' cells, shown in green. The human bile duct cells have fully repaired ...

Radiation therapy uses precisely focused high-energy beams to kill cancer cells. To treat bile duct cancer, our doctors may give radiation alone or in combination with chemotherapy or other treatments ...

Stents to treat various blockages in the human body can themselves become blocked, but a new sensor developed at the University of Michigan for stents that are used in the bile duct may one day ...

Bile is a body fluid produced by the liver that has a digestive and an excretion function. Bile could collect disease biomarkers released from the biliary tract or surrounding tissues, such as the ...