Clinical characteristics of gallbladder cancer Gallbladder cancer is a very aggressive malignant tumor with the characteristics of early lymph node metastasis, direct infiltration of liver tissue, easy to occur abdominal implantation and hematogenous metastasis. Its mortality rate is high, with a 5-year survival rate of <5% and an average survival period of 5 to 8 months. It is truly the king of cancers because its long-term efficacy is even worse than that of liver cancer and pancreatic cancer. Clinically, there are people who are worried about gallbladder cancer because of stones and polyps, and there are also people who are obviously at high risk but miss screening. So, who are the high-risk groups of gallbladder cancer? High-risk group: elderly women, large stones, adenoma-like polyps.