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Gallbladder cancer is a relatively uncommon cancer. If it is diagnosed early enough, it can be cured by removing the gallbladder. Most often it is found after symptoms such as abdominal pain and jaundice occur, and it has spread to other organs such as the liver. It is a rare cancer that is still being studied and thought to be related to gallstones building up, which also can lead to...


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Does anyone have gallbladder cancer and is surviving it?
I was diagnosed with it last year and have yet to find someone that i...

Since the gallbladder is an organ that we can go without, I assume that you had your gallbladder removed. It basically comes down to how early it was detected. If...

Asked by Sandia71 - 30 months ago

My father is diagnosed with gallbladder cancer.?
My father got his gallbladder removed and was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer two weeks ago....

You wouldn't by any chance know any more specifics about it? http://cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_3X_How_is_gall_bladder_cancer_staged_68.asp?rnav=cri

Asked by Confused - 5 months ago

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    your gallbladder because it has cancer on it. I have no symptoms no yellowing of the skin or eyes size and they still told me it was pallup. So my doctor arranged for me to get my gallbladder removed

    Aug 16, 2008

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    it was her gallbladder and it needed to come out ASAP. Well by the time they got it out it was gang green. Now they took a gang green gallbladder out laproscopically! Okay no problems

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