Symptoms tend to depend on whether the cancer is in ducts inside the liver intrahepatic or in ducts outside the liver extrahepatic and include.
Blocked bile duct tumor.
There are three general locations where this type of cancer may arise within the bile drainage system.
This makes bile back up into the bloodstream and can cause jaundice.
When the bile duct is blocked the liver cannot excrete bile.
A gallstone or scar tissue can also block the bile duct.
Those are thin tubes about 4 to 5 inches long that move a fluid called bile from.
Bile duct cancer also called cholangiocarcinoma is when unusual cells grow out of control inside your bile ducts.
However it s important to note that a blockage is not always a cancerous tumor.
People with bile duct obstruction also often experience.
When bile duct cancer does cause symptoms it s usually because a bile duct is blocked.
Normally bile is made by the liver and released into the intestine.
Within the liver intrahepatic affecting the bile ducts located within the liver just outside of the liver extrahepatic or perihilar located at the notch of the liver where the bile ducts exit.
Bile ducts connect your liver to your gallbladder and to your small intestine.