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  2. 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]

  3. 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] Light colored stool or dark urine may also occur. [4]

  4. Gallbladder - Wikipedia

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    Cancer of the gallbladder may also be found incidentally after surgical removal of the gallbladder, with 1–3% of cancers identified in this way. Gallbladder polyps are mostly benign growths or lesions resembling growths that form in the gallbladder wall, [ 26 ] and are only associated with cancer when they are larger in size (>1 cm). [ 21 ]

  5. Mariska Veres - Wikipedia

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    Veres died of gallbladder cancer on 2 December 2006 at age 59, just three weeks after the disease had been detected. [5] [6] Discography.

  6. ‘I Tried The Prenuvo Full-Body MRI Scan—And It Put ... - AOL

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    Gallbladder and biliary system (they can see gallstones and bile ducts) Pancreas (they can see masses and the size of the pancreatic duct because if it’s enlarged, it can be a sign of ...

  7. Gastrointestinal cancer - Wikipedia

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    Cancers of the gallbladder are typically adenocarcinomas, and are common in elderly women. Gallbladder cancer is strongly associated with gallstones, a porcelain gallbladder appearance on ultrasound, and the presence of polyps within the gallbladder. Gallbladder cancer may manifest with weight loss, jaundice, and pain in the upper right of.

  8. Courvoisier's law - Wikipedia

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    Courvoisier's sign occurs due to the gradual (chronic) nature of the obstruction caused by cancer (e.g. pancreatic, often located in pancreatic head, cholangiocarcinoma, etc.), which gradually causes biliary back-pressure and gradually distends the gallbladder over time, without causing acute damage, thus without causing pain.

  9. Porcelain gallbladder - Wikipedia

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    The assertion that porcelain gallbladder increases the incidence of gallbladder cancer is widely taught in medical schools but is based on studies from 1931 and 1962. [1] A prominent study aid for surgical residents even states that the risk of cancer in a porcelain gallbladder is 15%. [2]