What is the symptom of biliary tract cancer

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Jaundice is the early symptom of cholangiocarcinoma. About 90% of cholangiocarcinoma is found because of jaundice. Jaundice can be seen when the sclera, palm, mouth mucosa and skin turned yellow, this is because of cancer obstruction of the bile duct, bile from the liver out of the retention in the liver and then return to the blood. Let's learn about the early symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma.

What is the symptom of biliary tract cancer

First: jaundice cholangiocarcinoma patients lack of typical symptoms in the early stage, most patients seek medical treatment because of jaundice, jaundice is the earliest and most important symptom of cholangiocarcinoma, about 90% - 98% of cholangiocarcinoma patients have varying degrees of skin, sclera yellow. Jaundice is characterized by progressive aggravation and deepening, and most of them are painless. Jaundice in a few patients is fluctuating. Jaundice appeared earlier in upper cholangiocarcinoma, and later in middle and lower cholangiocarcinoma because of buffer jaundice of gallbladder.

Second: about half of the patients with abdominal pain have right upper abdominal pain, distending pain or discomfort, weight loss, loss of appetite and other symptoms, which are often regarded as early warning symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma. Abdominal pain at the beginning, there are similar gallstones, cholecystitis. According to clinical observation, only 3 months after the onset of cholangiocarcinoma, abdominal pain and jaundice can appear.

Third: skin pruritus can appear before or after jaundice, but also with other symptoms, such as tachycardia, bleeding tendency, mental retardation, fatigue and fat diarrhea, abdominal distension, etc. skin pruritus is caused by the increased bilirubin content in the blood, which stimulates the peripheral nerves of the skin.

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Other symptoms such as jaundice and abdominal pain, such as nausea, vomiting, emaciation, dark yellow urine color, such as soy sauce or strong tea, light yellow stool color or even clay color, etc. when the advanced tumor is broken, there may be biliary bleeding, black stool, stool occult blood test positive, and even anemia; when there is liver metastasis, there may be hepatomegaly, cirrhosis and other symptoms.