Interesting article on cholangiocarcinoma

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Worms in raw fish can lead to cholangiocarcinoma. This is apparently common in some Asian countries. Here's the article from the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-cancer-worms,1,5736641.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines & ctrack=1 & cset=true-Marie

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when i was first diagnosed with psc i was sure i got it from raw fish in southeast asia. before my diagnosis i traveled the world extensively and ate everything everywhere, from restaurants to carts on the street. i have never had any adverse effects from this or food poisoning. i have eaten all kinds of raw fish. my doctor is chinese and he just laughed at me and said i got psc the usual way, the unknown way. this article does make me wonder though. when i go to my hepatologist in orange county, california every single patient in the waiting room and exam rooms except me are asian. i told my son just today when i went in there, that i wondered why so many asians had to go to a hepatologist. it's odd too, because they are not from one country. they from all different parts of asia. it seems though that no one on this site is of asian descent.Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL.com.

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Hmm, and I lived in Japan for a year and ate sushi when I was there. I

immediately thought of that when I read the article. But that was decades

ago. Some things linger in your body.

Where in Orange County are you? I'm in Tarzana, CA, which is in LA. There

are a number of us in LA with PSC.

>when i go to my hepatologist in orange county, california every single

>patient in the waiting room and exam rooms except me are asian. i told my

>son just

>today when i went in there, that i wondered why so many asians had to go

>to

>a hepatologist. it's odd too, because they are not from one country.

>they

>from all different parts of asia. it seems though that no one on this

>site is

>of asian descent.

>

>

>

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Hep B is common in Asia and can be transmitted via mother's milk, sexual contact

or

contaminated food. The contaminated food route is rare in the West for HepB,

though not

uncommon for Hep A, an unrelated virus without the long-term effects of Hep B

and C.

I too was wondering about this but spent only a few days in SE Asia although

several

months in China. I wonder if the worms show up in liver biopsies. But if you

have UC, it's

most likely you got PSC as a complication of that.

Martha (MA)

>

> when i was first diagnosed with psc i was sure i got it from raw fish in

> southeast asia. before my diagnosis i traveled the world extensively and ate

> everything everywhere, from restaurants to carts on the street. i have never

> had any adverse effects from this or food poisoning. i have eaten all kinds

> of raw fish. my doctor is chinese and he just laughed at me and said i got

> psc the usual way, the unknown way. this article does make me wonder though.

> when i go to my hepatologist in orange county, california every single

> patient in the waiting room and exam rooms except me are asian. i told my

son just

> today when i went in there, that i wondered why so many asians had to go to

> a hepatologist. it's odd too, because they are not from one country. they

> from all different parts of asia. it seems though that no one on this site

is

> of asian descent.

>

>

>

> ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at

> http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

>

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I don't think you get PSC from the worms - you get cholangiocarcinoma from the worms. I hadn't heard that this was a risk factor for CCA before.

-Marie

Reply-To: To: Subject: Re:Interesting article on cholangiocarcinomaDate: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:30:24 -0000

Hep B is common in Asia and can be transmitted via mother's milk, sexual contact or contaminated food. The contaminated food route is rare in the West for HepB, though not uncommon for Hep A, an unrelated virus without the long-term effects of Hep B and C. I too was wondering about this but spent only a few days in SE Asia although several months in China. I wonder if the worms show up in liver biopsies. But if you have UC, it's most likely you got PSC as a complication of that. Martha (MA)>> when i was first diagnosed with psc i was sure i got it from raw fish in > southeast asia. before my diagnosis i traveled the world extensively and ate > everything everywhere, from restaurants to carts on the street. i have never > had any adverse effects from this or food poisoning. i have eaten all kinds > of raw fish. my doctor is chinese and he just laughed at me and said i got > psc the usual way, the unknown way. this article does make me wonder though. > when i go to my hepatologist in orange county, california every single > patient in the waiting room and exam rooms except me are asian. i told my son just > today when i went in there, that i wondered why so many asians had to go to > a hepatologist. it's odd too, because they are not from one country. they > from all different parts of asia. it seems though that no one on this site is > of asian descent.> > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour>

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