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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Biliary tract cancer affects bile ducts within the gallbladder, liver and small intestine. The cancer becomes HER2-positive when the tumor cells overexpress the HER2 protein, which causes the tumors ...

Tucatinib and trastuzumab work by blocking a protein known as human epidermal growth factor ... including that of the bile ...

Bile duct cancer is uncommon ... all of which had signs of changes to a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). The research was presented by Dr. Yoshiaki Nakamura from ...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

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 ...