What does radiotherapy for gastric cancer mean

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My uncle has been suffering from gastric cancer for two years. At the suggestion of his family, he went to the hospital for surgical treatment, and his condition has been controlled to a certain extent. Gastric cancer is a terrible disease, and hemoptysis often occurs in daily life. Now, we can relieve it by means of food therapy. Now, I will talk about what is radiotherapy for gastric cancer I'll tell you what I mean.

What does radiotherapy for gastric cancer mean

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 should not be performed in patients with more than 40 years of age. 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.

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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.