Gallbladder and bile duct cancers are aggressive cancers that can significantly affect an individual's health ... Both diabetes and obesity are also risk factors, and both have been linked with an elevated risk of gallstones and bile duct disease.
Picariello needed a procedure known as Whipple surgery to remove the cancer in his bile duct. It involves temporarily removing part of the patient’s intestines to remove the cancer on the bile duct and clean out the relevant lymph nodes.