In a story of resilience and courage, a 59-year-old Emirati mother of five has triumphed over a second cancer diagnosis, this ...

PBC is a progressive autoimmune disease that results from the destruction of the bile ducts in the liver ... approval based on biomarkers (blood levels of alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin).

The portal triads consist of mesenchymal cells surrounding the portal vein (PV), hepatic artery (HA), and the cholangiocyte lined intra-hepatic bile ducts (IBD ... interfaces the blood supply with the ...

Treatment may include surgery, a liver transplant, ablation therapy (a needle or probe is used to kill cancer cells), embolization therapy (cutting off blood supply to a tumor ... lead to ...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

Consultant medical oncologist Professor John Bridgewater is leading the UK arm of an international study to find treatments for bile duct cancer (Charlotte Southall/UCLH/PA) Doctors in the UK are ...

Doctors in the UK are hoping to transform the lives of people with deadly bile duct cancer. A new study – which has shown promising early results – matches the patient’s tumour to one or ...

While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers ...

Biliary colic can occur when a gallstone blocks the duct of the gallbladder ... People with high levels of cholesterol or salts in their bile have an increased risk of developing gallbladder ...

While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers ...