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US National Cancer Institute
Information on Gallbladder Cancer
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/gallbladder
Last viewed February 2011
The American Cancer Society
All About Gallbladder Cancer
www.cancer.org/Cancer/GallbladderCancer/index
Last viewed February 2011
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Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th edition)
American Joint Committee on cancer
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Improving Outcomes in Upper Gastro-intestinal Cancers
www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/01/91/61/04019161.pdf
Depaartment of Health, January 2001
Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancers
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
June 2005
Carcinoma of the gallbladder. Misra, S, Chaturved, A, Misra, NC, Sharma, ID (2003) The Lancet Oncology, Vol 4, No 3: 167-176
Current management of gallbladder carcinoma. Zhu A, Hong T, Hezel A and Kooby (2010) The Oncologist, 15: 168-181
Cisplatin plus gemcitabine versus gemcitabine for biliary tract cancer. Valle J, Wasan H, Palmer D, Cunningham D et al (2010) The New England Journal of Medicine, 362: 1273-81
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Gallbladder cancer: Can newer insights improve the outcome? Dutta U (2012) Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 27: 642 -653
Dr Lucy Wall, Consultant in Medical Oncology
Mr Nigel Heaton, MBBS, FRCS, Consultant in Gastrointestinal Surgery
Mr D F Mirza, MS, FRCS, Consultant Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon
Dee McLean - McDee Art, Medical Illustration
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