The first UK-wide picture of gallbladder cancers found by chance: across 24 centres over nine years, two thirds went on to liver surgery and those who did stayed free of disease far longer.
UK HPB Research Collaborative Group study of 285 patients diagnosed with incidental gallbladder cancer after cholecystectomy between January 2014 and December 2022 at 24 UK centres. Median follow-up was 31 months; five-year disease-free survival was 41.5 percent and overall survival 45.1 percent. Of 193 patients (67.7 percent) who underwent liver resection, 97.9 percent had segment 4b/5 resection. Liver resection was associated with longer disease-free survival (51 versus 15 months). Adverse tumour biology was associated with poorer survival.
This is the UK baseline for the incidental cancer pathway: a re-resection rate well above the Dutch registry's 24 percent, with the same selection caveat. The abstract leaves out the histology, referral and timing detail; the full paper holds it.
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Shares A national incidental gallbladder cancer pathway: histology for every gallbladder, referral within two weeks, re-resection by eight, Incidental gallbladder cancer (found after cholecystectomy), Radical (extended) cholecystectomy, Gallbladder cancer roadmap: from a chance finding at gallstone surgery to a disease with its own trials and the tag gallbladder-evidence.
Shares A national incidental gallbladder cancer pathway: histology for every gallbladder, referral within two weeks, re-resection by eight, Incidental gallbladder cancer (found after cholecystectomy), Radical (extended) cholecystectomy, Gallbladder cancer roadmap: from a chance finding at gallstone surgery to a disease with its own trials and the tag gallbladder-evidence.
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Shares A national incidental gallbladder cancer pathway: histology for every gallbladder, referral within two weeks, re-resection by eight, Incidental gallbladder cancer (found after cholecystectomy), Gallbladder cancer and the tag gallbladder-evidence.
Shares Incidental gallbladder cancer (found after cholecystectomy), Radical (extended) cholecystectomy, Gallbladder cancer roadmap: from a chance finding at gallstone surgery to a disease with its own trials, Gallbladder cancer and the tag gallbladder-evidence.
Shares Incidental gallbladder cancer (found after cholecystectomy), Radical (extended) cholecystectomy, Gallbladder cancer roadmap: from a chance finding at gallstone surgery to a disease with its own trials, Gallbladder cancer and the tag gallbladder-evidence.
Shares Incidental gallbladder cancer (found after cholecystectomy), Gallbladder cancer roadmap: from a chance finding at gallstone surgery to a disease with its own trials, Gallbladder cancer and the tag gallbladder-evidence.