Comprehensive management of gallbladder cancer
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-9752.2011.02.005
- VernacularTitle:胆囊癌的综合治疗
- Author:
Jiandong WANG
;
Zhiwei QUAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Gallbladder neoplasms;
Surgical treatment;
Chemotherapy;
Radiotherapy
- From:
Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery
2011;10(2):93-95
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Gallbladder cancer is the most common malignancy of biliary tract with a very poor prognosis. The therapeutic strategy of gallbladder cancer has been improved in some aspects. Identifying the accurate stage is the basis of surgical treatment. Radical resection is the only choice of treatment which provides patients long survival. For most patients in T1a stage, simple cholecystectomy is adequate, but dissection of hepatoduodenal ligament should be added when the lesions located in neck and duct of gallbladder. Patients in T1b stage often need radical cholecystectomy. Radical cholecystectomy with Ⅳb and Ⅴ segmentectomy and lymphadenectomy of N2 nodes should be performed to patients in T2 stage. Extended right lobe resection can improve the prognosis of selected T3 and T4 patients.The effect of chemotherapy for gallbladder cancer remains unsatisfactory, and current chemotherapeutic regimens were based on 5-FU, gemcitabine or S-1. The effect of a new chemotherapeutic sensitization scheme with continuous infusion of somatostatin,epirubicin 5-FU/CF and cisplatin is under research, and the preliminary results are promising. Radiation shows some benefits to patients with gallbladder cancer, but its effects are still uncertain.
