Bruno Nervi

Aug 16, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Constanza González |Alfonso García-Pérez |Bruno Nervi |Cesar Munoz |César Muñoz

1 INTRODUCTION The mortality due to gallbladder cancer (GBC) in Chile is one of the highest in the world, proving to be a major health problem in the country.1 GBC mainly affects women—in 2002 it was the first cause of cancer death (15.3 per 100,000 women) and in 2010 it became the second cause (11.9 per 100,000 women).2, 3 In 2021, GBC was the third type of cancer in women that caused the most years of life lost, and 935 Chilean women and 493 Chilean men died from GBC.4 GBC usually develops...