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Dr. Sirica. The incidence and mortality of cholangiocarcinoma, the primary cancer of the bile ducts, is increasing worldwide. Some 3,500 new cases are now diagnosed annually in the United States. Survival rates remain dismally low because most patients have advanced disease at the time of diagnosis and thus are poor candidates for the current best treatment, surgical resection. Although there are some known risk factors for the disease (such as primary sclerosing cholangitis), the cause of most cases remain unknown and the cellular and molecular changes that accompany the disease have not been well understood.

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