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Gall Bladder Cancer

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Gastrointestinal Malignancies

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Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is the most common biliary epithelial malignancy, with an estimated 10,910 new cases and 3700 deaths per year (Siegel et al. in CA Cancer J Clin 65:5–29, 2015 [1]). This disease’s insidious nature and typically late presentation place it among the most lethal of invasive neoplasms. Gallbladder cancer spreads early by lymphatic or hematogenous metastasis and by direct invasion into the liver. While surgery may well be curative at early stages, both surgical and nonsurgical treatments remain largely unsuccessful in patients with more advanced disease.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Audrey E. Ertel

  2. Division of Surgical Oncology, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    David Bentrem

  3. Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Daniel E. Abbott

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Ertel, A.E., Bentrem, D., Abbott, D.E. (2016). Gall Bladder Cancer. In: Bentrem, D., Benson, A. (eds) Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34244-3_6

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