How to treat advanced gastric cancer

Update Date: 2022-03-02 Source: Network

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Grandma has been checking for gastric cancer for more than a year, because it was found later at that time, it was already in the middle and advanced stage, so she has been carrying out chemotherapy. But the condition is always good and bad, and there is no obvious improvement, just get a stable control, the doctor said that this has been very good, some people are not as good as this, then how to treat advanced gastric cancer is good, let's understand.

How to treat advanced gastric cancer

First, surgical treatment, (1) the principle of radical operation is to remove part or all of the stomach including the cancer focus and the gastric wall that may be infiltrated, remove the lymph nodes around the stomach and reconstruct the digestive tract according to the clinical staging standard. (2) palliative surgery can not remove the primary focus, in order to reduce the symptoms caused by obstruction, perforation, bleeding and other complications, such as gastrojejunostomy, jejunostomy, perforation repair, etc.

The second is chemotherapy, which is used to prolong the survival period before, during and after radical operation. Chemotherapy can slow down the development of tumor and improve the symptoms of patients with advanced gastric cancer. In principle, adjuvant chemotherapy is not necessary for patients with early gastric cancer after radical operation. Patients with the following conditions should be treated with adjuvant chemotherapy: pathological type, high degree of malignancy; tumor area greater than 5 cm; multiple tumor; age less than 40 years old. Chemotherapy is needed in patients with advanced gastric cancer after radical operation, palliative operation and recurrence after radical operation.

Third: some adjuvant treatment, such as surgery, chemotherapy after taking Chinese medicine.

matters needing attention

The clinical manifestations of gastric cancer are similar to gastritis or other common benign gastric diseases. It usually takes more than 2 years for early gastric cancer to develop into advanced gastric cancer, and most of early gastric cancer are accompanied by atrophic gastritis or ulcer disease and other background diseases.