Cost of biological treatment for advanced gastric cancer

Gastric cancer is a highly malignant tumor disease in life. It is usually in the late stage when discovered. Gastric cancer develops rapidly and has a poor prognosis, so the treatment is relatively difficult. Early gastric cancer is mainly treated with surgery. Although patients with advanced gastric cancer can also receive surgical treatment, is the cost of biological treatment for advanced gastric cancer expensive?

Since most advanced gastric cancers have already spread and metastasized, it is difficult to perform surgical resection. Even if the patient's body can tolerate surgery, it is only a palliative resection. At this time, the treatment of advanced gastric cancer should combine multiple methods to complement each other and give full play to their respective advantages. Chemotherapy is often used in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer. It can shrink the tumor to a certain extent and create opportunities for surgery. It can also be used after palliative surgery to control the progression of the disease and prolong the survival period of gastric cancer patients.
However, surgery can only remove tumor lesions visible to the naked eye, while tumor cells scattered in the blood and lymph cannot be removed by surgery; chemotherapy and radiotherapy kill tumor cells while also killing normal cells, causing a decrease in the patient's white blood cell count, decreased immunity, accelerated tumor cell metastasis, and repeated use makes the patient insensitive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Therefore, choosing the right treatment method is of great clinical significance for patients with advanced gastric cancer. The cost is determined according to individual circumstances.