Bile Duct Cancer: What You Should Know

Cholangiocarcinoma, commonly known as Bile Duct Cancer, is a rare and often fatal type of cancer that affects the bile ducts.

Bile Duct Function

The bile ducts are a series of tubes responsible for transporting digestive juices (bile) from your liver where it’s made, all the way to your gallbladder where it’s stored. From the gallbladder, ducts carry bile to your gut, where it aids in breaking down fats found in the food you eat.

In most cases, cholangiocarcinoma arises in the parts where bile is transported, which lie outside the liver. Rarely does the cancer develop in ducts that are located within …read more