Itchy skin may be a symptom of gallbladder cancer

  In recent years, gallbladder cancer has become one of the major diseases that endanger human health and bring great pain to people. Gallbladder cancer can not only cause the death of patients by itself, but even lead to complications. What are the typical symptoms of gallbladder cancer? What are the typical symptoms of gallbladder cancer? Experts from oncology hospitals will introduce you the knowledge about typical symptoms of gallbladder cancer in detail, hope it will be helpful to you.  Common symptoms of gallbladder cancer 1. Abdominal pain: About half of gallbladder cancer patients have symptoms such as right upper abdominal pain and distension or discomfort, weight loss and loss of appetite, which are often regarded as early warning symptoms of bile duct cancer. At the beginning of abdominal pain, there are similar to cholelithiasis and cholecystitis. According to clinical observation, abdominal pain and jaundice can appear in only 3 months after the onset of bile duct cancer.  Itchy skin: It may appear before or after the appearance of jaundice, or it may be accompanied by other symptoms such as tachycardia, bleeding tendency, mental atrophy, weakness and fatty diarrhea, abdominal distension, etc. The itchy skin is caused by the increase of bilirubin content in blood, which stimulates the peripheral nerves of skin.  3.Jaundice: Patients with cholangiocarcinoma lack typical symptoms in early stage, most of them visit the doctor because of jaundice, which is the earliest and the most important symptom of cholangiocarcinoma. Jaundice is characterized by progressive aggravation and deepening, and is mostly painless, while a few patients have fluctuating jaundice. Jaundice appears earlier in upper bile duct cancer and later in middle and lower bile duct cancer because of the buffering of the gallbladder.