[Cancer of the gallbladder].

In the paper, the materials of clinical observation over 57 patients with the bladder cancer and the results of analysis of autopsy reports of 64 patients died from this lesion are presented. Cancer of the gallbladder affected mostly females (6 times as frequently as males) aged over 50 years. Only in 59% of cases the bladder cancer developed against the background of cholelithiasis. An absence of typical symptoms in cancer of the gallbladder resulting in late recognition of this lesion is emphasized. The prognosis both after radical and palliative surgical procedures is rather poor. Only some patients survived for 2 years after the operation. Without the operation the survival would not exceed 3 months since establishment of the diagnosis of cancer of the gallbladder. For more early recognition of cancer of this localization special and instrumental methods of diagnosis are largely advocated, while as a prophylactic measure--timely cholecystectomy for chronic cholecystitis.