Not Signed In - 'Dua Anti-reflux Valve' Found To Improve Quality Of Life For Bile Duct-Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:00 AM EST
... An anti-reflux valve developed to help esophageal cancer patients also has been shown to help those with bile duct obstruction, according to Kulwinder S. Dua, M.D., a research physician at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The study, using the anti-reflux biliary stent in patients with cancer of the pancreas or bile duct, has been accepted for publication in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. ...
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- Bile Duct Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Bile Duct Cancer, Extrahepatic
- Extrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer
- Bile Duct Diseases
- Air Quality
- Mitral Valve Prolapse
- Liver Cancer
- Common Bile Duct
- Bile duct obstruction
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Diseases
- GERD
- Cancers
- Drinking Water Quality
- Health-Related Quality of Life
- Quality of Life, Health-Related
- Cholangitis (inflammation of a bile duct), cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder)
- Smoking Cessation and Continued Risk in Cancer Patients
- Metastatic Cancer
- Vesicoureteral Reflux
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