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Localized Gallbladder Cancer
Treatment of localized gallbladder cancer may include the following:
- Surgery to remove the gallbladder and some of the tissue around it. The liver and nearby lymph nodes may also be removed.
Radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy may follow surgery.
- Radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy.
- A clinical trial of radiation therapy with radiosensitizers.
Unresectable Gallbladder Cancer
Treatment of unresectable gallbladder cancer may include the following:
- Radiation therapy as palliative treatment, with or without surgery or the placement of stents, to relieve symptoms caused by blocked bile ducts.
- Surgery as palliative treatment to relieve symptoms caused by blocked bile ducts.
- Chemotherapy as palliative treatment to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer.
- A clinical trial of internal radiation therapy or radiosensitizers.
- A clinical trial of chemotherapy.
Reference:
National Cancer Institute, USA.
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