Inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts—also known as cholangiopathies—can stop the bile from flowing, a vital fluid that helps digest fats. When bile can’t move through these ducts, it backs up ...

The liver creates a digestive juice called bile and stores it in the gall bladder. While eating, the gall bladder forces the bile through a gall bladder tube called the bile duct. Bile duct cancer, or ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Bile ducts are pathways that carry hepatocyte-produced bile from the liver to the small intestine. In the human fetal liver, bile ducts are formed from bile duct epithelial cells ...

Intersectional disparities in mortality of laryngeal cancer: A retrospective analysis. Recent trends in SEER Age-Adjusted incidence rates, 2017-2021. Group Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) Lower ...

PSC occurs in 1 out of 10,000 people, who are mostly male adults between 30 and 60 years old, and it commonly develops in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a study published in the International Journal of Cancer suggest there is an association between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and an increased risk of ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a rare autoimmune disease affecting the bile ducts in the liver. When bile ducts become damaged, bile can build up in the liver, leading to inflammation and ...

More than 41,000 new cases of primary liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and nearly 30,000 people will die of these diseases, according to the ...

About 8,000 people are diagnosed with bile duct cancer each year. But the actual number of cases is likely to be higher, because these cancers can be hard to diagnose, and some might be misclassified ...

Impact of Hispanic ethnicity on immunotherapy outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma: Insights from the National Cancer Database. Results of statewide demographics, cancer cases and linear regression ...

A multicenter study led by UC Davis Health has tested a new treatment designed to improve care for people with a rare liver ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Grey poop can be caused by liver issues ...