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At Significantly Higher Risk
• About 85 percent of people with gall bladder cancer have a history of gallstones (cholelithiasis). Sometimes,
although not often, the gall bladder becomes hardened (calcified) from repeated inflammation as gallstones are
passed. People with this "porcelain gall bladder" have a higher risk of developing this cancer than do others.
The typical patient with gall bladder cancer is an elderly woman with a history of gall bladder problems.
At Slightly Higher Risk
• Gallstone disease without a "porcelain gall bladder."