Can stomach cancer in the elderly be cured?

Can gastric cancer be cured in the elderly? In many people's minds, cancer is a fatal disease. Once it occurs, there is no way to treat it. Of course, many people also question whether gastric cancer can be cured. Most gastric cancer patients are already in the middle or late stages when they are diagnosed, and have missed the best time for gastric cancer treatment. Therefore, the cure rate of gastric cancer is very low. However, for patients with early gastric cancer, if the treatment is appropriate, the possibility of cure is still relatively high.

Radical surgical resection is the only way to cure gastric cancer, so surgery is the first choice for treating early gastric cancer. The cure rate of early gastric cancer surgery and postoperative consolidation treatment is high, and it is also the key to prolonging the patient's survival time. The postoperative survival rate of early gastric cancer with single lesions is relatively high, and the incidence is high, and the recurrence rate is also low, only 2.8%. Some patients with recurrent cases are early gastric cancer with lesions invading the submucosal layer and lymph node metastasis. In addition, early gastric cancer mucosal carcinoma should be treated with R1 surgery, and submucosal carcinoma should be treated with R2 surgery; polypoid intramucosal carcinomas less than 2 cm are completely sufficient for local resection of the tumor or R0 surgery. For individual Ⅱa + Ⅱc types that invade the submucosal layer and have lymph node metastasis, chemotherapy should be combined.

In addition to correctly selecting the treatment method, early surgical treatment of gastric cancer should also pay attention to postoperative consolidation treatment to improve the cure rate. The methods used for postoperative consolidation treatment include traditional Chinese medicine, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, etc., which are selected according to the patient's condition. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a certain effect in inhibiting cancer, but attention should be paid to the prevention and relief of side effects, or combined with traditional Chinese medicine for toxicity reduction and efficacy enhancement.

Patients with early-stage gastric cancer surgery are relatively weak, and residual lesions may lead to recurrence or complications. In order to increase the thoroughness of early-stage gastric cancer surgical treatment, auxiliary treatment with traditional Chinese medicine is essential.

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy can effectively control local symptoms and can be used for postoperative adjuvant therapy. They can also be used for patients who cannot undergo surgery and can achieve a certain inhibitory effect. Therefore, they are also a common method for treating early gastric cancer. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have great toxic side effects, so when using them, they must be combined with Chinese medicine treatment to reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and improve the patient's immune function.

The above is what our experts have introduced to you about "Can gastric cancer in the elderly be cured?" Early gastric cancer should be treated with the right attitude and methods. Although Western medicine can temporarily eliminate the disease, it cannot guarantee that gastric cancer will not recur. Therefore, combining traditional Chinese medicine to treat tumors can prevent recurrence and metastasis to a certain extent. In other words, only the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine can improve the cure rate of early gastric cancer.