Bile duct cancer – also called cholangiocarcinoma ... on where the cancer cells first form: Intrahepatic bile duct cancer starts inside your liver. Extrahepatic bile duct cancer starts ...

However, it provides a practical manner for surgical oncologists to describe the lesion and in turn, the anticipated extent of liver that may need to be resected to achieve complete extirpation of ...

Cancer that starts in the ducts outside the liver is called extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Cancer that starts in the ducts inside the liver is called intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Intrahepatic ...

Fig 1 Age-standardized incidence rates of liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancers. 30 ASR, age-standardized rate. However, other countries have also experienced a sharp increase in age-standardized ...