Liver and Biliary disease

Palliative therapy for pancreatic/biliary cancer gives relief to obstructive jaundice, duodenal obstruction, and cancer-related pain by using a multidisciplinary approach, including input from all the different groups of treating oncologists for a longer and better quality of survival.

     

Palliative therapy for pancreatic/biliary cancer gives relief to obstructive jaundice, duodenal obstruction, and cancer-related pain  by using a multidisciplinary approach, including input from all the different groups of treating oncologists for a longer and better quality of survival. This can be effectively optimized in most of these patients by  surgical palliative drainage procedures  and  in inoperable cases endoscopic placement of metal biliary stents. Total relief is possible by addressing  all the components pain i.e. Physical, Psycho-social, emotional and spiritual Pain.

Decompensated cirrhosis is treated with liver transplant, which is still evolving. Good quality of life is possible with effective palliative care for the patients waiting for a liver transplant or end stage liver disease.