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The area of Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases includes both cancerous and non-cancerous conditions that affect the pancreas – an organ located behind the stomach that secretes digestive juices and hormones to help digest food and nutrients, and regulate blood sugar levels. The pancreas also stores energy from food. The most common of benign pancreatic diseases is pancreatitis, which may be either acute or chronic. Pancreatic cancer is a malignancy of the pancreas.

Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases and Bile

Biliary System Diseases affect the organs and ducts – bile ducts and gallbladder – that are involved in the production and transporting of bile, a liquid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder which aids in the digestion of lipids and transports waste. Bile normally drains from the liver through a number of bile ducts to the duodenum and eventually back to the bile ducts and liver. If any duct in this complex system becomes diseased or blocked, a number of benign but serious diseases may result, including gallstones, cholecystitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). A malignancy of the biliary system is biliary duct cancer, or cholangiocarcioma.

As a major academic medical center, New York-Presbyterian is home to the most up-to-date diagnostic tools, research programs, prevention programs, therapeutic treatments and best patient care available to treat Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases. These include a range of minimally invasive surgical, diagnostic, and radiation treatments for these diseases, which are used whenever possible and which have been demonstrated to give patients faster recovery times, fewer complications, less scarring, and excellent outcomes.

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