Are gallbladder growths/cysts/tumors bad for you? When should I start to become concerned?

Answer 1

Ummm... have you actually been diagnosed? If it is malignant, then YEAH! it is very dangerous, and an oncologist will treat you. If not, you should still get any kind of growth removed. In your gallbladder, there's not a lot of room... sooo, because it's a functioning organ, you want to have it removed.

A cyst will eventually come to a head, and explode... the infected pus and exudates will travel through your system and could infect you somewhere else... so you DEFINATELY want to take care of it immediately.

Answer 2

Gallbladder and bile duct tumors are a frequent cause of extrahepatic biliary obstruction. Symptoms may be absent but often are constitutional or reflect biliary obstruction. Diagnosis is based on ultrasound, CT, or cholangiography. Prognosis is usually poor. Mechanical bile drainage can often relieve pruritus, recurrent sepsis, and pain due to biliary obstruction.(Merck)
Complete tumor (Cholangiocarcinoma) removal allows 30% to 40% of patients to survive for at least 5 years, with the possibility of a complete cure. If the tumor cannot be completely removed, cure is generally not possible. In this situation, with treatment, about half of patients live a year, and about half live longer.
Complications:-
* Spread (metastasis) of tumor to other organs
* Liver failure
* Infection
(MedlinePlus)
Please see the web pages for more details on Cholangiocarcinoma.

Answer 3

Three great answers! This is just thinking outside the box, in case you find out you have cancer--

In 1990, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stage 3-B, but I've survived. My doctors were great people, but they really couldn't tell me squat about cancer. During the year in treatment, I started learning about alternative medicine.

Here's what I've figured out--FIRST, somebody--probably connected to the AMA--is getting my answers deleted as 'not a question or an answer', because they don't want you to know about this. So if you want to keep this information, you need to copy it to a wordpad document quickly, before it disappears. Hopefully, they'll give up and stop that nonsense soon, but I wouldn't count on it. Now, here goes--

Cancer is caused by poor nutrition (including oxygen), which leads to a compromised immune system, and by stressors. Stressors can be environmental, like heavy metals, pesticides, food additives, electromagnetic waves or pollution. They can be internal things like emotional or job stress, or poisonous people in our lives. Aging and lack of exercise are also contributing factors.

Our bodies have 60 trillion--yes, trillion--cells, and there are always some mutating into cancer cells, but a healthy immune system kills them before they have a chance to get a foothold in the body.
It takes a LONG time, usually, or an exrtaordinary amount of stressors, to degrade the immune system to the point where it won't do its job, but once cancer has formed, it will generally spread rapidly.


THIS IS IMPORTANT! There are ways to BEAT cancer that the AMA is keeping from the American public, that are currently being used in Europe and around the world! Here are some great books on the subject that is getting hard to find--

"The Cure for All Cancers", ISBN 0963632825
"A Cancer Therapy", ISBN 0882681052
"Oxygen Therapies", ISBN 0962052701
"Hydrogen Peroxide--Medical Miracle", ISBN 1885236077
"The Natural Cure for Cancer--Germanium", ISBN 0533071410
"Killing Cancer", ISBN 0705000966


Type 'used books' into your browser and find a good site, then type in the ISBN numbers and get some great help cheap.

I know of people whose cancer has 'spontaneously remitted' (WENT AWAY for no known reason) after they went on programs of herbs and nutrition that restart our immune systems.

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the pharmaceutical companies control medical law and the FDA in this country with a revolving door policy and heavy lobbying. In 2004, medicine was a 1.1 TRILLION dollar business--about 1/4th of the total economy. That's just too big to care about individuals. You and your family must look out for yourselves to stand a chance of being healthy.

This is not a joke, and I'm not selling anything. Look into it. Best of luck

Answer 4

Dr's surgically remove gallbladders if a patient has gallstones. Why not have yours removed to end the anxiety?