Early symptoms of gallbladder cancer?

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What we call gallbladder cancer generally refers to the primary malignant tumor of gallbladder. Because of its high degree of malignancy, easy early metastasis, difficult early detection, insensitive to chemotherapy drugs and other characteristics, the long-term curative effect of patients with gallbladder cancer diagnosed before operation is worse than that of liver cancer and pancreatic cancer. What are the symptoms of gallbladder cancer? Let's share them with you.

Early symptoms of gallbladder cancer?

Pain in the right upper abdomen. Because gallbladder cancer often coexists with cholecystolithiasis, the nature of pain is similar to that of calculous cholecystitis. At first, it is discomfort in the right upper abdomen, followed by persistent dull pain or dull pain, sometimes accompanied by paroxysmal pain and radiation to the right shoulder. Some patients have fever.

Most of the digestive tract symptoms are dyspepsia, greasy belching and reduced stomach intake, which is due to the failure of gallbladder renewal function to digest fatty substances.

Right upper abdominal mass. 54.5% of the patients had a mass in the right upper abdomen or upper abdomen in the late stage of the disease; The other is the obstruction caused by duodenal invasion and accompanied with obstruction symptoms; In addition, invasion of liver, stomach and pancreas can also appear in the corresponding parts of the mass.

matters needing attention

Jaundice and skin pruritus: often appear in the late course of the disease, due to the invasion of bile duct by cancer tissue or the compression of bile duct by metastatic lymph nodes, bile secreted by the liver can not be smoothly discharged into the intestinal tract, and then back into the blood, showing yellow staining of skin mucosa, most accompanied by skin pruritus that is difficult to alleviate, especially at night.