How long can a patient with stage IV gastric cancer live?

1. The life expectancy of patients with stage IV gastric cancer depends on their own physical condition. If they actively cooperate with doctors for treatment and surgery in stage IV, their life expectancy will be as long as one or five years. However, if there is no active surgery and drug control in urban areas, the life expectancy is generally two to five months, and those with poor physical condition are generally about one year.

2. Stage IV is already an advanced stage of cancer. If not treated actively, the survival time is about half a year. If treated actively, the survival time can be extended, which varies from person to person. It is difficult to estimate the maximum survival time of stage IV, but statistically, the five-year survival time of gastric cancer stage IV is about 14%.

How long can a patient with advanced gastric cancer live?

If chemotherapy drugs are effective, the survival period will be slightly longer. Because some patients now have poor chemotherapy effects, which are generally ineffective, the survival period will be very short, which is about a year for patients with advanced gastric cancer. They will eventually develop corresponding symptoms such as abdominal metastasis, ascites, liver metastasis, and lung metastasis.

When patients have only a few lymph node metastases, there is a great chance of cure even for advanced gastric cancer, but when there are more lymph node metastases and distant organ metastases, the patient's survival time will be shortened. There is no specific time for the survival of patients with advanced gastric cancer, and the length of survival is related to many factors.

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