Colangiocarcinoma hiliar

Hilar cholangiocarcinoma care at Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic offers compassionate care by experienced doctors for people with cholangiocarcinoma.

Your Mayo Clinic care team

At Mayo Clinic, experts work together to provide you with exactly the care you need. Your care team is made up of experts in hilar cholangiocarcinoma, including specialists in gastroenterology and hepatology, radiology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, surgery, transplant, and other areas if needed.

This coordinated team approach fosters clear communication focused on your situation. Close collaboration among your Mayo Clinic care team members enables them to have your test results available quickly and to coordinate your appointments.

Advanced diagnosis and treatment

People who seek care at Mayo Clinic have access to advanced radiological imaging, genetic testing and other advanced diagnostic tools. Your Mayo Clinic doctors have specialized expertise in analysis of biopsy specimens for bile duct cancer and in radiological imaging, both of which are essential to an accurate diagnosis and staging of your cancer.

Your treatment options for your hilar cholangiocarcinoma will depend on the specifics of your cancer, such as the size, location and extent, as well as your health and personal preferences. At Mayo Clinic, your expert team considers all of the available options and works with you to find a treatment that meets your needs.

Mayo Clinic offers all standard treatments for hilar cholangiocarcinoma, including surgery, radiation therapy, radiofrequency ablation, photodynamic therapy, and chemotherapy and other medicines.

Mayo Clinic also offers proton therapy — a newer form of radiation therapy. Children, young adults and those with cancers located close to critical organs and body structures may benefit from this highly targeted precision beam therapy. Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy Program features intensity-modulated proton therapy with pencil beam scanning that allows radiation oncologists to destroy the cancer while sparing healthy tissue.

Mayo Clinic also offers palliative care, which is specialized medical care that focuses on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of a serious illness. At Mayo Clinic, palliative care specialists work with you, your family and your other doctors to provide an extra layer of support that complements your ongoing care.

Liver transplant experience

Mayo Clinic physicians pioneered the treatment protocol that combines chemotherapy and radiation therapy followed by liver transplantation for people with hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Mayo specialists have extensive experience performing liver transplants using this approach, which is offered at all three Mayo Clinic campuses.

The protocol has since been adopted by other centers worldwide, but it remains a technically complex procedure that requires a highly coordinated multidisciplinary team to achieve the best results. Mayo Clinic reports that outcomes after liver transplant using this rigorous pretreatment protocol are excellent, often superior to traditional surgical resection. These outcomes support transplantation as a primary treatment option rather than a last resort.

At Mayo Clinic, liver transplantation is performed by highly experienced surgeons who complete a large number of these operations each year.

Nationally recognized expertise

Mayo Clinic hilar cholangiocarcinoma specialists are respected for their knowledge, experience and expertise. Specialists have extensive experience caring for people with bile duct cancers and they perform a high volume of operations and procedures on the liver and bile ducts. Mayo Clinic specialists, including endoscopists, interventional radiologists, cancer surgeons and transplant surgeons, are among the most experienced procedural experts in the world.

Conocimientos y categorías

Mayo Clinic doctors have extensive experience diagnosing and treating many people with hilar cholangiocarcinoma, an uncommon type of cancer. Mayo Clinic is one of the major referral centers in the United States for primary sclerosing cholangitis, which is the major risk factor for bile duct cancer.

Mayo Clinic surgeons pioneered the use of liver transplant to treat hilar cholangiocarcinoma. They have performed many liver transplant procedures and other surgical procedures to treat bile duct cancers.

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center meets the strict standards for a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center, which recognize scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Mayo Clinic en Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic en Jacksonville (Florida), y Mayo Clinic en Phoenix y Scottsdale (Arizona), se encuentran entre los mejores hospitales de oncología según la clasificación de U.S. News & World Report.

Mayo Clinic en Rochester, Minnesota, ocupa el primer puesto entre los mejores hospitales especializados en trastornos digestivos, según la clasificación de U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic en Phoenix y Scottsdale, Arizona, y Mayo Clinic en Jacksonville, Florida, se encuentran entre los mejores hospitales para trastornos digestivos, según la clasificación de U.S. News & World Report. De acuerdo con la selección de los Mejores Hospitales Pediátricos de U.S. News & World Report para 2024-2025, el Centro Pediátrico de Mayo Clinic en Rochester está clasificado como el hospital n.º 1 en Minnesota y en la región de los cinco estados de Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota del Norte, Dakota del Sur y Wisconsin.

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