Idrees and colleagues presented on multidisciplinary care of hepatobiliary cancer at VUMC during an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event, co-hosted by The American Journal of Managed Care ...

Individuals with ulcerative colitis have an increased risk for certain types of cancer based on age, instead of treatment type.

Neoplasms of the hepatobiliary system include primary tumors, such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), and secondary metastatic lesions from nonhepatobiliary primary ...

It is well-established that environmental factors and comorbidities can increase a patient’s risk of cancer, but a new study suggests that certain comorbidities are linked with particular types ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Liver Transplant faculty have busy elective hepatobiliary practices. Over 150 major liver resections or extrahepatic biliary tree procedures are performed ...

Liver cancer — the fastest-growing cause of cancer death in the U.S. — has been notoriously difficult to treat.Based on an estimated 41,000 deaths, liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer is ...

PURPOSE: This is the first report on the development and initial validation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Hepatobiliary (FACT-Hep) questionnaire, a 45-item self-report instrument ...

Dr. Jon Gerry and Dr. John Creasy from Providence Cancer Institute shared about a diverse group of cancers called hepatobiliary cancers, that involve the liver, bile ducts and gall bladder, and ...

Dr. Derek DuBay with a inpatient recovering from a partial hepatectomy for a 21cm hepatocellular carcinoma. Program Highlights. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Liver Transplant faculty ...