Journal
INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 871-+Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2010.07.006
Keywords
Biliary tract cancers; Liver flukes; Liver cancers
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- National Institutes of Health [DK 06378]
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Cholangiocarcinomas are rare malignant tumors whose incidence is increasing worldwide. Risk factors for this malignancy include both infectious and non-infectious diseases characterized by chronic inflammation of the bile duct epithelia. Diagnosis of these. cancers remains difficult because of the lack of sensitive diagnostic tests. The prognosis is poor probably because of the lack of effective treatments for unresectable cancer.
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