Radiotherapy after gastric cancer surgery

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My aunt's intestines and stomach are not very good all the time. When she was young, she always said that she had a stomachache. Now check out aunt suffering from gastric cancer, the doctor's suggestion is to carry out surgical treatment, so as to control the metastasis of cancer cells. Next, I will tell you whether radiotherapy is necessary after gastric cancer surgery.

Radiotherapy after gastric cancer surgery

First, although surgery can remove the tumor, it does not guarantee that there will be no recurrence after surgery. Postoperative radiotherapy can have effect on some diseased tissues, prevent diffusion and metastasis, and effectively prevent recurrence. For patients with gastric cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy as an effective method to prevent tumor recurrence and metastasis has shown an increasingly important value. Especially for patients with locally advanced gastric cancer.

Second: early postoperative patients can do chemotherapy, because it can control the disease and prevent recurrence. However, after advanced gastric cancer surgery, chemotherapy is no longer available. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with advanced gastric cancer lead to more weakness and even death. In fact, many patients are not caused by cancer at all. Second, unscientific treatment results in the loss of physical function in the process of treatment.

Third: for some cancers with liver and peritoneal metastasis, radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy can effectively complement each other, prolong the life of patients and improve the survival rate. Because after surgery, there will be cancer cells not removed completely, so for patients with advanced gastric cancer, chemotherapy will only be more painful, so chemotherapy is not necessary.

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In general, patients with gastric cancer after surgery can not be sure that they will recover, because the spread and metastasis of cancer cells is particularly fast. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out appropriate postoperative radiotherapy, which can prevent and inhibit the spread of cancer cells.