However it s important to note that a blockage is not always a cancerous tumor.
Blocked bile duct tumor.
When bile duct cancer does cause symptoms it s usually because a bile duct is blocked.
Bile ducts connect your liver to your gallbladder and to your small intestine.
When the bile duct is blocked the liver cannot excrete bile.
People with bile duct obstruction also often experience.
Symptoms tend to depend on whether the cancer is in ducts inside the liver intrahepatic or in ducts outside the liver extrahepatic and include.
Itching abdominal pain usually in the upper right side fever or night sweats nausea and vomiting tiredness or lack of energy unintentional weight loss loss of appetite.
A gallstone or scar tissue can also block the bile duct.
This makes bile back up into the bloodstream and can cause jaundice.
This condition also known as bile duct cancer is an uncommon form of cancer that occurs mostly in people older than age 50 though it can occur at any age.
Normally bile is made by the liver and released into the intestine.
There are three general locations where this type of cancer may arise within the bile drainage system.
Cholangiocarcinoma is cancer that forms in the slender tubes bile ducts that carry the digestive fluid bile.