Where this gallbladder cancer information comes from

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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

Principles and practice of oncology (8th edition)
De Vita, V.T., Hellman, S. and Rosenberg S.A.
Lipponcott, Williams, Wilkins, 2008

Cancer and its management (6th edition)
Tobias J and Hochhauser D
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th edition)
American Joint Committee on cancer
Springer, 2010

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

Biliary cancer: ESMO clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow up. Eckel F, Brunner T, Jelic S (2010) Annals of Oncology (supplement 5): v65-v69

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

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