The fact that this disease shares so many of its symptoms with other illnesses that do not pose any threat to life makes early detection that much harder. Fever of 38C (100.4F) is a classic example of a symptom that could result from many kinds of ailments. Doctors, first of all, try to discover if it is a symptom of one of the more common illnesses. If they eliminate all the usual fever causes, they might start to suspect that this fever could be a bile duct cancer symptom.

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