Can gastric cancer be cured? What are the treatments?

Can stomach cancer be cured?

1. The treatment effect of gastric cancer is generally related to the time of treatment, which is very important.

2. According to statistics, the 3-year survival rate after early gastric cancer surgery is over 97%, the 5-year survival rate is over 90%, and the 10-year survival rate is over 60%. Therefore, the earlier gastric cancer is discovered, the shorter the treatment course, the higher the cure rate and survival rate, which is an important part of gastric cancer prevention and treatment.

3. However, according to statistics, less than one-third of patients are discovered and diagnosed with gastric cancer within three months. That is to say, only a few patients can receive timely treatment in the early stages of gastric cancer. Most patients are already in the middle or late stages when they are discovered, and the treatment effect is not ideal.

4. The early symptoms of gastric cancer are not very obvious, but there are signs. Most gastric cancer patients will feel upper abdominal pain, and some patients will feel abdominal discomfort, stomach bloating, loss of appetite and other symptoms.

5. There are also a small number of gastric cancer patients who have no digestive system symptoms, only unexplained weight loss and fatigue. Experts say that if there is no history of gastric disease and the above symptoms appear recently, you should be alert to the occurrence of gastric cancer and make further examinations in time.

Treatment of stomach cancer:

Surgery for Gastric Cancer

Most gastric cancers are adenocarcinomas with different degrees of differentiation, so most gastric cancer cases are lowly sensitive or even insensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Although some progress has been made in the research of gastric cancer drugs in recent years, it is still unable to fundamentally improve the prognosis of gastric cancer.

Currently, the treatment of gastric cancer is still mainly surgery. The current gastric cancer surgeries include traditional open surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and endoscopic surgery. According to the purpose of treatment, they can be divided into radical surgery, palliative surgery, reductive surgery, etc.