RT Book, Section A1 Lendoire, Javier Carlos A2 Morita, Shane Y. A2 Balch, Charles M. A2 Klimberg, V. Suzanne A2 Pawlik, Timothy M. A2 Posner, Mitchell C. A2 Tanabe, Kenneth K. SR Print(0) ID 1145764493 T1 Gallbladder Cancer T2 Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071793315 LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145764493 RD 2024/03/28 AB Gallbladder cancer is an aggressive malignancy with a generally poor prognosis. Described for the first time in two autopsy cases by Stoll and his colleagues in 1777, it is the most common malignant tumor of the biliary tract and the sixth most common gastrointestinal cancer.1,2 Complete surgical resection provides the only hope of long-term cure and survival. Despite an increasing number of patients diagnosed incidentally, most patients are found with advanced disease when potentially curative treatment is not feasible and palliative therapy is the only option.3