"Doctor! Look, my eyes have turned yellow a few weeks ago, and they have never healed. I heard others say that yellow eyes are liver cancer , isn't it?"
The doctor just opened the door When the woman brought the case, he heard the woman making a noise, and waved his hand and said, "Don't be anxious, speak slowly, there's no point in being anxious!"
Seeing that the woman finally became quiet, the doctor stood up and followed the woman's instructions. He opened the eyes of this 60-year-old man, sat down, opened the medical records, and began to ask him how he had been eating recently, whether he had weighed himself, whether he had gained weight or lost weight, and whether there was any abnormality in his urine.
The old man said, " I can only eat less than half of what I used to eat recently. I haven't weighed myself, but I can feel that I have lost weight, and my urine is a bit yellow."
The old man is actually worried about his health, so he takes the stool to the doctor I moved around in front of me, grabbed the edge of the table, and asked the doctor if I had liver cancer. The doctor said, "I will arrange a few tests for you first, and you can go and do it."
Then the woman accompanied her old father to undergo abdominal CT and enhanced MRI. The final examination results showed that the old man's liver's inner and outer bile ducts and pancreatic ducts had obvious dilation symptoms. The old man was not suffering from liver cancer, but from liver cancer. It is cholangiocarcinoma .
But fortunately, it was discovered early, and the doctor immediately arranged the operation for the old man. After the operation, the old man was well taken care of by his children, and his body was slowly recovering.
Although cancer is very scary, the cancers that everyone is familiar with are gastric cancer, , liver cancer, intestinal cancer, lung cancer, etc. Many people may never know about bile duct cancer unless they read this article today, unless they or they Unfortunately, a relative or friend around me has been targeted by cholangiocarcinoma.
The American "Cancer" magazine published a study in 2021 that in the past 30 years of human history, the incidence rate of cholangiocarcinoma has been showing an upward trend. Although the incidence rate in our country is not high, it is also rising, with the incidence rate of cholangiocarcinoma reaching nearly 85%. Not only the elderly, but also middle-aged people and young people will be targeted.
What is cholangiocarcinoma and will it be cured with just one operation? No need to pay attention?
Cholangiocarcinoma is a common disease of biliary system . The bile duct is the channel responsible for transporting the bile secreted by the liver every day. The bile is transported to the gallbladder through the bile duct.
The gallbladder receives bile transported by the bile duct, and then stores the bile in the gallbladder. When food enters the body, the gallbladder begins to contract, and then transports bile to the intestine to help the intestines digest food, thus maintaining the body of health.
From this simple introduction, everyone can know what the specific function of the bile duct is. If the bile duct becomes cancerous, the bile secreted by the liver will not be transported out. Cholangiocarcinoma is also divided into intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Intrahepatic bile duct cancer will not completely prevent bile from being transported out, but some bile may flow out. However, if extrahepatic bile duct cancer develops, it will greatly affect the health of the liver and other organs in the body.
——Why are the eyeballs yellow, which may be cholangiocarcinoma?
Normal people’s eyeballs are black and white, or brown and white, but yellowing of the whites of the eyes may be cholangiocarcinoma.
That's because whether it is intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma or extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, as long as the bile duct is cancerous, it will affect the delivery of bile from the liver to the gallbladder, and then bile will be retained in the liver, causing jaundice, so people's eyeballs The whites of your eyes will turn yellow when you look at them.
However, it cannot be said that yellowing of the eyeballs must be cholangiocarcinoma. It may also be caused by age, fat deposition, drug influence, long-term use of foods containing carotene, etc. , but it cannot be avoided that it may be Liver cancer, pancreatic cancer .
If you find that your eyeballs have turned yellow, don't panic and stay calm. It may have nothing to do with the disease. It is best to go to the hospital for a check-up. Especially if your eyeballs have turned yellow for a long time, you should seek medical treatment in time.
Why does the bile duct become cancerous? What is the killer of cancer?
First of all, we must find the reason from life. It is said that " disease enters from the mouth." Sometimes diseases are eaten out by oneself. If you often do not Eating breakfast, often being hungry, dieting to lose weight, eating too greasy, being obese, being too emotionally unstable, etc. will all lead to excessive bile secretion , increasing the risk of cholangiocarcinoma.
Of course, it has gallbladder and bile duct diseases.If it is not well controlled, it will also develop into cholangiocarcinoma, such as infectious cholangitis, sclerosing cholangitis, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis. , hepatitis B, schistosomiasis, gallstones , etc., will all increase the risk of cholangitis in the human body.
Of course, there is also family inheritance. If there is one or more patients with cholangiocarcinoma in the family, the risk of bile duct malformation and bile duct dilation in the children will increase, which may also lead to cholangiocarcinoma.
Early-stage cholangiocarcinoma does not bring obvious and typical symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma to the body. When many cholangiocarcinoma patients really find themselves feeling unwell, most of them go to the hospital to be diagnosed with late-stage cholangiocarcinoma. At this time, the hope of cure is already very slim, but the patient has a strong desire to survive and actively cooperates with the doctor's various treatments (surgical resection, radiation, chemotherapy), which can also prolong the patient's survival time and even lead to a cure. possibility.
For any disease, the most important thing we should do is early prevention, early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment . It is not only necessary to abandon the unhealthy lifestyle that can cause cholangiocarcinoma, and then have the habit of regular physical examinations, but also to actively pay attention to some of the early symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma.
What are the symptoms in the early stage of cholangiocarcinoma? Don’t ignore it, this is saving lives!
Not only will the whites of the eyes turn yellow, 90% of cholangiocarcinoma patients in the early stage will also have yellow skin and feel itching. At the same time, patients will find that they often feel abdominal distension, abdominal pain, decreased food intake, nausea and vomiting, yellow urine, weight loss, etc.
Note that cancer usually does not have only one symptom, so if you only have abdominal bloating or yellow urine, there is actually no need to worry too much. If your body has multiple symptoms and lasts for a long time, you need to investigate.
Especially people over 40 years old should have abdominal B-ultrasound regularly. If you find you have gallstones, cholecystitis, etc., you should treat them as soon as possible.
To sum up, I don’t know if today’s article has made everyone more aware of cholangiocarcinoma. Yellowing of the whites of the eyes is one of the typical symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma, so don’t ignore it. But the most important thing is to have a healthy lifestyle.
