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  2. Cholangiocarcinoma - Wikipedia

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    Cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bile duct cancer, is a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts. [2] Symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma may include abdominal pain , yellowish skin , weight loss , generalized itching , and fever. [ 1 ]

  3. List of cancer mortality rates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Stomach cancer: 3.1 Colorectal cancer: 13.9 Liver cancer and bile duct cancer: 6.6 Gallbladder cancer: 0.6 Pancreatic cancer: 11.0 Laryngeal cancer: 1.0 Lung cancer: 40.2 Tracheal cancer (including other respiratory organs) 0.1 Bone cancer (including joint cancer) 0.5 Skin cancer (excluding basal and squamous) 3.4 Breast cancer (non-in situ) 11.3

  4. Liver cancer - Wikipedia

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    In terms of mortality, the 5-year survival rate for liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancers in the United States is 19.6%. [79] In the United States, there is an estimated 1% chance of getting liver cancer across the lifespan, which makes this cancer relatively rare. [79] Despite the low number of cases, it is one of the top causes of cancer ...

  5. Why liver cancer rates have doubled in two decades - AOL

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    Those death rates are projected to increase by a further 10 per cent by 2040 - and the charity warned in the 15 years to then, liver cancer will have killed about 135,000 people.

  6. Woman, 25, announces her own death from cancer in final ... - AOL

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    Experts don’t know what causes it, but risk factors include having bile duct stones, cirrhosis of the liver or inflammatory bowel disease. About 8,000 people are diagnosed with bile duct cancer ...

  7. Cancer rates in millennials, Gen X-ers have risen starkly in ...

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    Liver and bile duct cancer. Non-HPV-associated oral and pharynx cancer (only in women) Anal cancer (only in men) ... as has the fatality rate of liver cancer, but only for women.

  8. Klatskin tumor - Wikipedia

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    A Klatskin tumor (or hilar cholangiocarcinoma) is a cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the biliary tree) occurring at the confluence of the right and left hepatic bile ducts. The disease was named after Gerald Klatskin, who in 1965 described 15 cases and found some characteristics for this type of cholangiocarcinoma. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Gallbladder cancer - Wikipedia

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    Gallbladder cancer is a relatively uncommon cancer, with an incidence of fewer than 2 cases per 100,000 people per year in the United States. [7] It is particularly common in central and South America, central and eastern Europe, Japan and northern India; it is also common in certain ethnic groups e.g. Native American Indians and Hispanics. [ 8 ]